The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
In postwar America, a man in a grey flannel suit walks the fine line between ambition and integrity — a tension that cuts to the very heart of the 1950s American Dream. Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit chronicles the life of Tom Rath, a World War II veteran and New York commuter who juggles a demanding corporate job, a restless marriage, and the haunting memories of his time at war. Set against the backdrop of Madison Avenue's advertising world and Connecticut suburbia, the novel presents a razor-sharp portrait of conformity, compromise, and the quiet desperation of middle-class prosperity. Wilson argues, with devastating clarity, that success and fulfilment are rarely the same thing — and that the cost of ambition is often paid in the currency of the soul. A landmark of mid-century American literature, the novel gave the English language an enduring cultural metaphor: the grey flannel suit as a symbol of corporate anonymity and social conformity. Written with understated precision and moral seriousness, Wilson's prose illuminates the invisible pressures that shape ordinary lives — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of themselves they would sacrifice for the sake of fitting in.
Author: Sloan Wilson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
In postwar America, a man in a grey flannel suit walks the fine line between ambition and integrity — a tension that cuts to the very heart of the 1950s American Dream. Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit chronicles the life of Tom Rath, a World War II veteran and New York commuter who juggles a demanding corporate job, a restless marriage, and the haunting memories of his time at war. Set against the backdrop of Madison Avenue's advertising world and Connecticut suburbia, the novel presents a razor-sharp portrait of conformity, compromise, and the quiet desperation of middle-class prosperity. Wilson argues, with devastating clarity, that success and fulfilment are rarely the same thing — and that the cost of ambition is often paid in the currency of the soul. A landmark of mid-century American literature, the novel gave the English language an enduring cultural metaphor: the grey flannel suit as a symbol of corporate anonymity and social conformity. Written with understated precision and moral seriousness, Wilson's prose illuminates the invisible pressures that shape ordinary lives — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of themselves they would sacrifice for the sake of fitting in.