On Hold The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson – HB/DJ/1955

Book Type : Hardback
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Edition : Book Club Edition
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : No Listing
ISBN Number : No Listing
Copyright Date : 1955
Dimensions : 8 ½” High x 5 ¾” Wide x ¾” Thick
Inventory Number : 000-005-825
Original Retail Price : $ Unknown

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Description : Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. It was a national bestseller that was made into an award-winning film, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our cultural vocabulary. Today, it is more relevant than ever.

Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race -- what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out. At once a searing indictment of corporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a deeply rewarding novel about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life.

From the front flap…
This is a novel about the man in the gray flannel suit. In these particular pages, the man’s name is Thomas Rath. He happens to work at Rockefeller Center in New York City, and his home happens to be in a near-by Connecticut suburb. His wife, Betsy, and their three children meet him in their battered old Ford when he arrives home from work each evening.

Although this novel is about the Rath family, the man in the gray flannel suit is a fairly universal figure in mid-twentieth-century America. The gray flannel suit is the uniform of the man with a briefcase who leaves his home each morning to make his living as an executive in the near-by city. Tom Rath’s wife appreciates the security this job provides, though both she and her husband at times question whether this is the life they really wanted when they were first married.

Tom Rath married Betsy when he was twenty-one and got into the war shortly after Pearl Harbor. As a paratrooper he killed seventeen men. He also met an Italian girl in Europe who later on became far more important in his life than he ever thought possible. Though most men do not fall in love with girls in Rome and don’t, even in the course of a war, kill seventeen men, each man has his own problems about which the world knows very little. These men are all over America wearing gray flannel. A few short years back, they were wearing uniforms of olive drab.

The central theme of this novel is the struggle of a man to adapt himself from the relative security of olive drab to the insecurity of gray flannel. Today many men wear the gray flannel suit and wonder whether this uniform provides as secure a life as the one they had when they were wearing olive drab.

Condition :

• Book :
  1. The book is in Very Good condition.
  2. The pages are clean, bright and tight.
  3. There are no tears or writing on the inside pages.
  4. The original owner’s name is written on the front endpaper.
  5. The book is from a non-smoking home.
• Dust Jacket :
  1. The dust jacket is in Good – Very Good condition.
  2. Normal wear with light soiling, fading, small dings and tears.

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