| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 385 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-365) and index. |
| Contents |
"This is where you should be" -- "Where are you going?" "Chicago. In America" -- The Jason from Chicago -- Tough enough to hold -- "Jewish suffering does not drive us from human nature" -- "By-blow of a travelling man" -- "Go! My child is missing. The world is chaos" -- "Is that perhaps the cousin from New Orleans they were expecting?" -- "Distractions of a fiction writer" -- "I am to suffering, as Gary is to smoke" -- "Violations of the spirit" -- "Dear Mama, as to why I haven't visited your grave in so long-- " -- "Life and death are two slopes under me" -- "Duck the bricks or field the bouquets" -- "If in--in. No? If out--out. Yes? No? So answer" -- The well-worn map -- "I speak as a person who has lately received or experienced light" -- Enrolled in theosophical kindergarten -- "The man with no foothold" -- "Can't go through it on the old iambic pentameter" -- In stormy solitude -- "Even Adam, who had God Himself to talk to, asked for a human companion" -- "At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth" -- "Maybe they believe me because very simply it's true" -- The writings of Saul Bellow -- Interviews with Saul Bellow -- Table of contents of each issue of The noble savage. |
| Summary |
A longtime friend of Saul Bellow tracks the novelist's life, examines his work's often critical reception, and studies the interplay between Bellow's life and his creation of fiction. |
| Subject |
Bellow, Saul.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Bellow, Saul. (OCoLC)fst00039239
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Novelists, American. (OCoLC)fst01039688
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Bellow, Saul.
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Biographie.
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Bellow, Saul, 1915-2005. (DE-588)118508725
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Romanciers américains -- Biography.
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Biografie. (DE-588)4006804-3
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Indexed Term |
Bellow, Saul |
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Novelists, American 20th century Biography |
| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
0312039271 |
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9780312039271 |
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0312038271 |
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