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called the novel's publication "a genuine literary event". After summarizing the previous novels in the cycle, Weintraub writes; "The long and memorable cycle has ended, and through it as in no other work in our time we have explored the inner life of the new classless class that is the 20th century
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Lewis Eliot, now sixty, experiences a medical condition that requires surgery. After a near fatal cardiac arrest, Eliot confronts his past life as well as reconciliation with his son Charles.
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Charles Percy Snow
Strangers and Brothers
Political fiction
Macmillan Publishers
Hardcover
Paperback
The Sleep of Reason
C. P. Snow
Strangers and Brothers
Kirkus Reviews
New York Times
The New York Review of Books
"Last Things"
"An elegiac ending to C. P. Snow's 11‐novel cycle"
New York Times
"End of the Line"
The New York Review of Books
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C. P. Snow
Strangers and Brothers
Time of Hope
George Passant
The Conscience of the Rich
The Light and the Dark
The Masters
The New Men
Homecomings

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