Appointment in Samarra
Americannoun
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Throughout the episode we hear repeated versions of the same story: Appointment in Samarra, an old fable about being unable to escape an appointment with death.
From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2017
His small Pennsylvania towns, like Gibbsville of Appointment in Samarra and Ten North Frederick, were microcosms of American society, observed with scrupulous attention to detail�down to the width of the lapel on a man's suit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appointment in Samarra, his first and best novel, was good enough and true enough to make anything he wrote thereafter worth reading.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appointment in Samarra, recounting the last days of Julian English, a doomed young member of the upper middle class, was a great success.
From Time Magazine Archive
I get out and walk toward the woman sitting at the entrance reading a novel called Appointment in Samarra.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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