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A review by jayrothermel
The Glory by Herman Wouk
3.0
Herman Wouk's novels all rotate around the same central themes:
1. A protagonist unsatisfied with his career, married to the weong woman, too busy in his career to strike out boldly for divorce so he can wed the right woman.
2. The martial career as a prism through which the values of the middle class professional abd artistic layers are observed and judged.
Wouk's Israel novels, The Hope and The Glory, are probably disliked as both "old fashioned" and as defenses of Israel itself. They can also be disliked as massive potboilers filled with soap opera melodrama.
I liked them. The hundred characters are hard to keep track of, but the complications and witticisms keep coming. And there are passages of humor and hard-won poignancy.
1. A protagonist unsatisfied with his career, married to the weong woman, too busy in his career to strike out boldly for divorce so he can wed the right woman.
2. The martial career as a prism through which the values of the middle class professional abd artistic layers are observed and judged.
Wouk's Israel novels, The Hope and The Glory, are probably disliked as both "old fashioned" and as defenses of Israel itself. They can also be disliked as massive potboilers filled with soap opera melodrama.
I liked them. The hundred characters are hard to keep track of, but the complications and witticisms keep coming. And there are passages of humor and hard-won poignancy.