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Actualby Saul BellowISBN 0140273182 (0-14-027318-2)
Softcover, Northwestern University Press
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The Adventures of Augie Marchby Saul BellowISBN 0140189416 (0-14-018941-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Augie March'Book summary:Originally published in 1953, Saul Bellow's modern picaresque tale grandly illustrates twentieth-century man's restless pursuit of an elusive meaning. Augie March, a young man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, doesn't understand success on other people's terms. Fleeing to Mexico in search of something to fill his restless soul and soothe his hunger for adventure, Augie latches on to a wild succession of occupations until his journey brings him full circle. Yet beneath Augie's carefree nature lies a reflective person with a strong sense of responsibility to both himself and others, who in the end achieves a success of his own making. A modern-day Columbus, Augie March is a man searching not for land but for self and soul and, ultimately, for his place in the world.[via]More editions of The Adventures of Augie March:
Collected Storiesby Saul BellowISBN 0140292896 (0-14-029289-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Henderson the Rain Kingby Saul BellowISBN 0140189424 (0-14-018942-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henderson the Rain King'Book summary:Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa. [via]
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Herzogby Saul BellowISBN 0140189432 (0-14-018943-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herzog'Book summary:A novel complex, compelling, absurd and realistic, Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog, a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage, the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty, but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. [via]
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Him With His Foot in His Mouthby Saul BellowISBN 0141180234 (0-14-118023-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Humboldt's Gift: Library Editionby Saul BellowISBN 0140189440 (0-14-018944-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humboldt's Gift: Library Edition'Book summary:A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life. [via]
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It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Futureby Saul BellowISBN 0140233652 (0-14-023365-2)
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Mosby's Memoirs and Other Storiesby Saul BellowISBN 0140189459 (0-14-018945-9)
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Ravelsteinby Saul BellowISBN 0141001763 (0-14-100176-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ravelstein'Book summary:Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Saul Bellow confined himself to shorter fictions. Not that this old master ever dabbled in minimalism: novellas such as The Actual and The Bellarosa Connection are bursting at the seams with wit, plot, and the intellectual equivalent of high fiber. Still, Bellow's readers wondered if he would ever pull another full-sized novel from his hat. With Ravelstein, the author has done just that--and he proves that even in his ninth decade, he can pin a character to the page more vividly, and more permanently, than just about anybody on the planet.
Character is very much the issue in Ravelstein, whose eponymous subject is a thinly disguised version of Bellow's boon companion, the late Allan Bloom. Like Bloom, Abe Ravelstein has spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, fighting a rearguard action against the creeping boobism and vulgarity of American life. What's more, he's written a surprise bestseller (a ringer, of course, for The Closing of the American Mind), which has made him into a millionaire. And finally, he's dying--has died of AIDS, in fact, six years before the opening of the novel. What we're reading, then, is a faux memoir by his best friend and anointed Boswell, a Bellovian body-double named Chick:
Ravelstein was willing to lay it all out for me. Now why did he bother to tell me such things, this large Jewish man from Dayton, Ohio? Because it very urgently needed to be said. He was HIV-positive, he was dying of complications from it. Weakened, he became the host of an endless list of infections. Still, he insisted on telling me over and over again what love was--the neediness, the awareness of incompleteness, the longing for wholeness, and how the pains of Eros were joined to the most ecstatic pleasures.
Ravelstein is a little thin in the plot department--or more accurately, it has an anti-plot, which consists of Chick's inability to write his memoir. But seldom has a case of writer's block been so supremely productive. The narrator dredges up anecdote after anecdote about his subject, assembling a composite portrait: "In approaching a man like Ravelstein, a piecemeal method is perhaps best." We see this very worldly philosopher teaching, kvetching, eating, drinking, and dying, the last in melancholic increments. His death, and Chick's own brush with what Henry James called "the distinguished thing," give much of the novel a kind of black-crepe coloration. But fortunately, Bellow shares Ravelstein's "Nietzschean view, favorable to comedy and bandstands," and there can't be many eulogies as funny as this one.As always, the author is lavish with physical detail, bringing not only his star but a large gallery of minor players to rude and resounding life ("Rahkmiel was a non-benevolent Santa Claus, a dangerous person, ruddy, with a red-eyed scowl and a face in which the anger muscles were highly developed"). His sympathies are also stretched in some interesting directions by his homosexual protagonist. Bellow hasn't, to be sure, transformed himself into an affirmative-action novelist. But his famously capacious view of human nature has been enriched by this additional wrinkle: "In art you become familiar with due process. You can't simply write people off or send them to hell." A world-class portrait, a piercing intimation of mortality, Ravelstein is truly that other distinguished thing: a great novel. --James Marcus [via]
Seize the Dayby Saul BellowISBN 0141023406 (0-14-102340-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Accountby Saul BellowISBN 0141180757 (0-14-118075-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Victimby Saul BellowISBN 0140189386 (0-14-018938-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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