They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not.
The Publisher Says: Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everthing going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. He became Assistant Director of the National Citizens Commission for Public Schools as well as Assistant Director of the 1955-56 White House Conference on Education. Wilson was an advocate for integrating, funding and improving public schools. The memoir What Shall We Wear to This Party? recalls his experiences in the Coast Guard during World War II and the changes to his life after the bestseller Gray Flannel was published. The novel The Ice Brothers is loosely based on Wilson's experiences in Greenland while serving with the US Coast Guard. In Georgie Winthrop, a 45-year-old college vice president begins a relationship with the 17-year-old daughter of his childhood love. A later novel, A Sense of Values, in which protagonist Nathan Bond is a disenchanted cartoonist involved with adultery and alcoholism, was not well received. Wilson published 15 books, including the bestsellers The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) and A Summer Place (1958), both of which were adapted into feature movies. He also published stories in The New Yorker and worked as a professor at the State University of New York's University of Buffalo. His first book, Voyage to Somewhere, was published in 1947 and was based on his wartime experiences. He served in World War II as an officer of the United States Coast Guard, commanding a naval trawler for the Greenland Patrol and an army supply ship in the Pacific Ocean.Īfter the war, Wilson worked as a reporter for Time-Life. "A consequential novel.Sloan Wilson (– May 25, 2003) was an American writer.īorn in Norwalk, Connecticut, Wilson graduated from Harvard University in 1942. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a classic of American literature and the basis of the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. This is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. But when a series of personal crises force him to reexamine his priorities - and take responsibility for his past - he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. Its title - like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 - has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation.
Wilson, Sloan The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (C-230)
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