The Victim A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 9781517267735 Books
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KIDNAPPED The hot sun of the South was sinking in red glow through the giant tree-tops of a Mississippi forest beyond the village of Woodville. A slender girl stood in the pathway watching a boy of seven trudge manfully away beside his stalwart brother. Her lips trembled and eyes filled with tears. "Wait—wait!" she cried. With a sudden bound she snatched him to her heart. "Don't, Polly—you hurt!" the little fellow faltered, looking at her with a feeling of sudden fear. "Why did you squeeze me so hard?" "You shouldn't have done that, honey," the big brother frowned. "I know," the sister pleaded, "but I couldn't help it." "What are you crying about?" the boy questioned.
The Victim A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 9781517267735 Books
One sultry summer in New York shortly after the end of the war, Asa Leventhal is left to his own devices when his wife, Mary leaves to tend to her mother down South. Asa is Jewish and writes for a trade magazine and is a self made man who has endured tough times but rose above them. During this hot, desultory time, Asa is accosted by an old, down on his luck acquaintance named, Albee. Asa is also helping, somewhat, to look after his brother's family while his brother works in another state. Max, the brother, has left behind two boys and his Italian wife, Elena. One of the boys is very sick and Asa takes ferry rides over to Staten Island to check on the family.It becomes apparent that Albee is following Asa. Albee blames Asa for his downfall and his firing from a job in which he put in a good word for Asa, but Asa got caught up in a heated argument with the boss and the boss subsequently fired Albee. Albee is a pain in the you know what. He stalks Asa with no mercy. He ends up in Asa's flat. All the while, Asa questions his own actions in the downfall of Albee. Neither man can get a handle on his own actions and each blames the other for their frustration. Asa's stems from the fact that he endures endless quibs from people who are prejudice against his race (such as Albee) and also from the fact that he feels guilty for his moderate success when people like Albee fall from grace or maybe, never really had a chance. Anyway, as far as I can see, neither man can never really own up and it becomes a comedy of sorts with each man doing a dance. Albee dances around Asa saying he owes him, and Asa dances around saying that Albee is driving him crazy. As the days wear on, the heat is intense and these two imbeciles keep up their dance until the breaking point.
There is a lot of inner dialog in The Victim. Asa scrutinizes everything, especially his interactions with others-he is constantly questioning himself and other people in their meaning of a look, a gesture or in what they say-much like humans do every day. That is the appeal of this book and much of Bellow's writing. Bellow's writing is so dense that you really cannot skim or skimp, if you do, you'll be back pedaling to see what you missed. Writers of his talent are rare. I always enjoy reading his works. He includes a lot of details but the way he writes never bores me and I never skim or skip ahead no matter the description or detail.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I could read it again. If you are new to Saul Bellow, you might be better off to start with Henderson The Rain King as this is one of Bellow's earlier works and doesn't appeal to all. Bellow's characters are life like, which is why he was a winner of so many awards, including the Nobel Prize. These honors are spot on, for Bellow is one of the best writers of the last century.
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The Victim A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 9781517267735 Books Reviews
Very happy with this product. The intense creativity that is inherent in the prose of Saul Bellow is a tremendous joy.
Written in that (in this case, tedious) classic style of the period, I must say it was just too much of the saccharine drama for me. Thomas Dixon is an earnest writer but is a hagiographer rather than a biographer.
I found some things in this book that I had not known before about Jefferson Davis and how some of the decisions he made were part of the downfall of the confederacy, a must read for any Civil War history buff.
Okay story - would have preferred non fiction added in. Didn’t really cover after the civil war until he died.
Saul Bellow's second novel 'The Victim' was published in 1947. He must have written it after news of the Holocaust reached North America. The protagonist, Asa Leventhal, is a mensch and feels guilty about the fate of his fellow Jews, although he can't speak it. Instead his thoughts overtake him and he has a psychological breakdown. This lasts about six weeks during a sweltering New York summer. The reader may understand Kirby Albee to be a real character but Bellow may have meant that Albee (I'll be) is an imagined alter ego. Albee has the exact opposite in looks and traits that Leventhal has, and Albee is also a gentile.
Leventhal's friends accept him while he is tormented by 'this man that comes around.' One friend says, 'Are you in your right mind?' 'You want to be two people?' These are hints that Albee may be a figment of Leventhal's imagination. The friends also know that his mother was insane.
Author Bellow is a master at describing all five senses to the reader in a concise style. You can feel the heat, hear the clang of the Staten Island ferry chains, etc. His book 'The Victim' is a must read for his precise descriptions, story telling, characters and perfection of the novel.
One sultry summer in New York shortly after the end of the war, Asa Leventhal is left to his own devices when his wife, Mary leaves to tend to her mother down South. Asa is Jewish and writes for a trade magazine and is a self made man who has endured tough times but rose above them. During this hot, desultory time, Asa is accosted by an old, down on his luck acquaintance named, Albee. Asa is also helping, somewhat, to look after his brother's family while his brother works in another state. Max, the brother, has left behind two boys and his Italian wife, Elena. One of the boys is very sick and Asa takes ferry rides over to Staten Island to check on the family.
It becomes apparent that Albee is following Asa. Albee blames Asa for his downfall and his firing from a job in which he put in a good word for Asa, but Asa got caught up in a heated argument with the boss and the boss subsequently fired Albee. Albee is a pain in the you know what. He stalks Asa with no mercy. He ends up in Asa's flat. All the while, Asa questions his own actions in the downfall of Albee. Neither man can get a handle on his own actions and each blames the other for their frustration. Asa's stems from the fact that he endures endless quibs from people who are prejudice against his race (such as Albee) and also from the fact that he feels guilty for his moderate success when people like Albee fall from grace or maybe, never really had a chance. Anyway, as far as I can see, neither man can never really own up and it becomes a comedy of sorts with each man doing a dance. Albee dances around Asa saying he owes him, and Asa dances around saying that Albee is driving him crazy. As the days wear on, the heat is intense and these two imbeciles keep up their dance until the breaking point.
There is a lot of inner dialog in The Victim. Asa scrutinizes everything, especially his interactions with others-he is constantly questioning himself and other people in their meaning of a look, a gesture or in what they say-much like humans do every day. That is the appeal of this book and much of Bellow's writing. Bellow's writing is so dense that you really cannot skim or skimp, if you do, you'll be back pedaling to see what you missed. Writers of his talent are rare. I always enjoy reading his works. He includes a lot of details but the way he writes never bores me and I never skim or skip ahead no matter the description or detail.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I could read it again. If you are new to Saul Bellow, you might be better off to start with Henderson The Rain King as this is one of Bellow's earlier works and doesn't appeal to all. Bellow's characters are life like, which is why he was a winner of so many awards, including the Nobel Prize. These honors are spot on, for Bellow is one of the best writers of the last century.
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