Saul Bellow: Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, ...
 Cannot Recommend as a Starting Point for Bellow: I am a Bellow fan and have read most of his novels. In case you are new to Bellow, his novels reflect his life, his writings, and his five marriages during his five active decades of writing. He hit his [... more]
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Ravelstein
Author: Saul Bellow Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780140291551 ISBN: 0140291555 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2001-04-26 [... more]
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Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition)
This is Not Carl Sandburg's Chicago: These seem to be Chicago days for this reviewer. He has just done some reviews of Chicago's Chess Records that essentially defined the sound of the electrified blues in what would be old Augie's old neighborhood. [... more]
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (Modern Library ...
Amazon.com Review: Ellison was a believer in the hybrid nature of American culture, a position clearly articulated in the essay "What America Would Be Like Without Blacks." Elsewhere, he writes about the music of jazzmen Charlie Parker and [... more]
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
This is Not Carl Sandburg's Chicago: These seem to be Chicago days for this reviewer. He has just done some reviews of Chicago's Chess Records that essentially defined the sound of the electrified blues in what would be old Augie's old neighborhood. [... more]
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Recovery
Intriguing, self-lacerating, hopeful novel of victory over addiction: John Berryman was working on "Recovery" when he died, and in these pages there is hope of some ultimate victory over addiction. In the character of Alan Severance is the [... more]
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Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories ...
This is a really dense collection...: ...and I don't mean that in a bad way. It took me a month to get through, and when I finally put it down I sat for a good thirty minutes, just thinking. There are five stories in all, and they all focus on someone [... more]
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More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
Not his best, but still remarkable: This isn't the one to choose if you've never read Bellow. Seize the Day (think brevity) is the place to start. From there, Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift, or Herzog make the best long reads. Augie March is [... more]
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Collected Stories
Amazon.com Review: Saul Bellow's Collected Stories, handpicked by the author, display the depth of character and acumen of the Nobel laureate's narrative powers. While he has garnered acclaim as a novelist, Bellow's shorter works prove equally strong. [... more]
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Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
read this book: Gimpel the Fool is a really well written book that is fun to read. It is an important source of information about Jewish history. But don't get me wrong, it's funny and easy to understand. The book focuses on the lives of simple Jews and [... more]
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Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Modern Classics)
"Is it any wonder I had to go to Africa?": What do Saul Bellow, Joni Mitchell, Sonic Youth, Counting Crows, and the X-Files all have in common? In his novel, Henderson the Rain King (1959), Bellow (1915-2005) blends philosophy and comic [... more]
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Dangling Man (Penguin Classics)
Some of his best writing: This early novella actually contains some of Bellow's best writing. Set in 1942-43, it is the diary of a young man waiting to be drafted (Bellow himself was deferred so long that eventually he joined the Merchant Marine). [... more]
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