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The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
Bold, expansive,and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie March blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A "born recruit," Augie makes himself available for hire by plungers, schemers, risk takers and operators, compiling a record of choices that is — to say the least — eccentric.
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Herzog
by Saul Bellow
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.
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Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
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.
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Henderson the Rain King
by Saul Bellow
The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson's search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes. Deciding that his true destiny is as a healer,... (more)
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Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
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Ravelstein
by Saul Bellow
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a... (more)
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Dangling Man
by Saul Bellow
Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Bellow’s first novel documents Joseph’s psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
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Mr. Sammler's Planet
by Saul Bellow
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. "Sorry for all... (more)
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The Actual
by Saul Bellow
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The Victim
by Saul Bellow
Bellow's second novel charts the descent into paranoia of Asa Leventhal, sub-editor of a trade magazine. With his wife away visiting her mother, Asa is alone, but not for long. His sister-in-law summons him to Staten Island to help with his sick nephew. Other demands mount, and readers witness a man losing control.
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To Jerusalem and Back
by Saul Bellow
You sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son and that her sister lost children in the 1973 war. A fact of Jewish life left unchanged by the creation of a Jewish State is that, "You cannot take your right to love for granted".
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It All Adds Up
From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
by Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow, who will be celebrating his 80th birthday in June 1995, offers an eclectic collection of insightful views on a wide variety of topics, ranging from a tribute to Mozart to remembrances of friends such as John Cheever and Allan Bloom to myriad ruminations on his beloved city of Chicago. NPR sponsorship.
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More Die of Heartbreak
by Saul Bellow
In this acclaimed novel from one of America's literary legends, two unforgettable characters take a lively romp through the baffling and often hilarious connection between the body and the mind. An eccentric Russian literature professor leaves his native Paris to be near his uncle--a world-class genius in botany but a total bungler when it comes to women--in the Midwest.
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The Bellarosa Connection
by Saul Bellow
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Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales
by Saul Bellow
Includes two novellas, "A Theft" and "The Bellarosa Collection", and the author's title piece story, "Something to Remember Me By". Originally published by "Esquire", it tells the tender and funny story of a young man's sexual initiation and guilt, one bleak Chicago winter's day in 1933.
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Biblioteka Horizonti
Razgovori (Conversations)
by Dejan Stojanovic
Dejan Stojanović, Razgovori (Conversations), Knjizevna rec, Beograd (Belgrade), 1999 A book of interviews from 1990 to 1992 in Europe and America, entitled Conversations, contains a selection of interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesich <the third section of the book, entitled Chicago (1991-1992)>. The second... (more)
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Recovery
by John Berryman
Dr. Alan Severance wakes up one morning confined to a familiar hospital with no recollection of his arrival. Thus starts Recovery, Berryman’s semi-autobiographical tale of "the disease called ‘alcoholism.’" This time, determined to free himself from his disease, Dr. Severance plunges into a rigorous plan for recovery. Following the clinic’s advice he confesses his humiliations, defeats, and delusions in an... (more)
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A Theft
by Saul Bellow
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Collected Stories
by Saul Bellow
Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest living writers. For more than sixty years he has stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Now collected for the first time in one volume and chosen by the author himself are favorites such as "What Kind of Day Did You Have?," "Leaving the Yellow House," and a previously... (more)

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