- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (24 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141180234
- ISBN-13: 978-0141180236
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,622,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This dazzling collection of shorter fiction describes a series of self-awakenings -- a suburban divorcee deciding among lovers, a celebrity drawn into his cousin's life of crime, a father remembering bygone Chicago, an artist, and an academic awaiting extradition for some unnamed offense.
About the Author
Saul Bellow was born in Canada in 1915 and grew up in Chicago. He attended Chicago, Northwestern and Wisconsin universities and had a BSc in Anthropology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, the first American to win the prize since John Steinbeck in 1962. Saul Bellow's books, many of which are published by Penguin, include Dangling Man (1944); The Adventures of Augie March (1953) which, like Herzog (1964) and Mr Sammler's Planet (1970), won the National Book Award; Henderson the Rain King (1959); Humboldt's Gift (1975), which won the Pulitzer Prize; To Jerusalem and Back (1976), his first non-fiction work, and More Die of Heartbreak (1987), amongst many others. Saul Bellow died in 2005.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a collection of stories about nervous, troubled , funny and strange individuals - about really alive people.
There is no much action in the stories, it's rather conversation of the hero of the story with you and even more with himself.
And when man talks to himself he tells things he never tells to others.This is what interesting and special in this book and other Saul Bellow's books. By the way , Saul Bellow owns Nobel prize in litterature.
There is no much action in the stories, it's rather conversation of the hero of the story with you and even more with himself.
And when man talks to himself he tells things he never tells to others.This is what interesting and special in this book and other Saul Bellow's books. By the way , Saul Bellow owns Nobel prize in litterature.
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What a pleasure to read Bellow again
9 May 2012
Format:Paperback
I have read a great deal perhaps most of Bellow. I came upon this small book and found a long story I had never read before. Here it is again the wonderful Bellow voice, the ironic descriptions, the masterful rendering of the 'things' of this world, the creation of odd attractive often not very respectable characters, the somewhat of a shlemiehl hero with the cultural interests, the lover of books, (in this case a scholar of Pergolesi's music) the relatives who do him in, the sense of life as a trap one has gotten oneself into and does not know how to get out of, the intense presentation and feeling of 'life'. Has there ever been an author who gives such a sense of what it is to be intensely alive through the use of one's mind and one's perception?
In this story the widower scholar narrator writes a long letter to a woman he allegedly insulted years ago. The 'alleged' comes from a former friend of his who is now out to get him. In the course of writing the letter the main character and voice of the book tells his story.It is the story of someone who continually 'puts his foot in his mouth' insults others but is the one who pays the price for it.The story also includes an account of a visit he makes to his ninety- four year old mother in a nursing home. A small classic in itself for anyone who has ever known such painful, crazily humorous, and heartbreaking visits.
All in all another thoroughly enjoyable and instructive work by one of America's literary greats.
In this story the widower scholar narrator writes a long letter to a woman he allegedly insulted years ago. The 'alleged' comes from a former friend of his who is now out to get him. In the course of writing the letter the main character and voice of the book tells his story.It is the story of someone who continually 'puts his foot in his mouth' insults others but is the one who pays the price for it.The story also includes an account of a visit he makes to his ninety- four year old mother in a nursing home. A small classic in itself for anyone who has ever known such painful, crazily humorous, and heartbreaking visits.
All in all another thoroughly enjoyable and instructive work by one of America's literary greats.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A Master Class in the Short Story
15 Feb 2008
Format:Paperback
Every story in this collection illustrates the range of style and depth of Saul Bellows writing. Every story is outstanding, from the title story (shades of Mosebys memoirs)to the lengthy 'What Kind of Day Did You Have' to Zetland.
The stories all concern the place of the intellectual and art in a society where intelligence is measured by wealth. In a country where the basic needs for living are met, 'phoney' needs are created;status symbols, pseudo intellectualism to create conversation at partys, where people spend all the time they have to pursue great art, philosophy and literature on seeking wealth; selling their souls for a career in some dead beat occupation or image of themselves that no one really believes in but themselves.
Bellow, the great intellectual himself, never loses the reader. His work makes you thirst to read the endless names and book titles he reels off. His style can change so vividly, from the modern (middle class?) style of say 'What Kind of Day..' to the Algrenesque (proletarian?) style of 'Zetland'
If you've never read Saul Bellow, ease in with this fabulous collection.Bellow was awarded the Nobel prize because he was great, not because there was nobody else to give it to as sometimes you're led to think!
The stories all concern the place of the intellectual and art in a society where intelligence is measured by wealth. In a country where the basic needs for living are met, 'phoney' needs are created;status symbols, pseudo intellectualism to create conversation at partys, where people spend all the time they have to pursue great art, philosophy and literature on seeking wealth; selling their souls for a career in some dead beat occupation or image of themselves that no one really believes in but themselves.
Bellow, the great intellectual himself, never loses the reader. His work makes you thirst to read the endless names and book titles he reels off. His style can change so vividly, from the modern (middle class?) style of say 'What Kind of Day..' to the Algrenesque (proletarian?) style of 'Zetland'
If you've never read Saul Bellow, ease in with this fabulous collection.Bellow was awarded the Nobel prize because he was great, not because there was nobody else to give it to as sometimes you're led to think!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good Stuff
29 May 2011
Format:Paperback
Bellow is a master because he picks himself apart and then with great discomfort gazes at the fragments that do not fit together and never will.
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