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Description edit
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Harry Trellman: A very intelligent middle-aged orphan businessman who is still in love with Amy Wustrin, the women he met in high school.
- Amy Wustrin: An interior designer whom Harry has deep feelings for.
- Sigmund Adletsky: A notable billionaire who becomes Harry's good friend and advises not to sit back and watch as Amy gets away yet again.
Quotes edit
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“Paris is just New York in French.”
Harry Trellman -
“These were all commonplace persons. I would never have let them think so, but it's time to admit that I looked down on them. They were lacking in higher motives. They were run-of-the-mill products of our mass democracy, with no distinctive contribution to make to the history of the species, satisfied to pile up money or seduce women, to copulate, thrive in the sack as the degenerate children of Eros, male but not manly, and living, the men and women alike, on threadbare ideas, without beauty, without virtue, without the slightest independence of spirit - privileged in the way of money and goods, the beneficiaries of man's conquest of nature as the Enlightenment foresaw it and of the high-tech achievements that have transformed the material world. Individually and personally, we are unequal to the scope of these collective achievements.”
Harry Trellman
First Sentence edit
It's easy enough to see what people think they're doing.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Saul Bellow (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0670860751
Page Count: 112
Publisher: Viking Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0670860751
Page Count: 112
Awards edit
- National Jewish Book Awards (1997: Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
Subjects edit
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