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Saul Bellow: Novels 1956-1964: Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog (Library of America)
by: Saul Bellow

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781598530025
ISBN: 159853002X
Label: Library of America
Manufacturer: Library of America
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 800
Publication Date: January 11, 2007
Publisher: Library of America
Studio: Library of America
Sales Rank: 195102

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- Bellow Vol.2
Another great collection of Bellow's works. Hope the Library of America comes out with the next volume sooner than a year.

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- A beautiful edition of three powerful works by an American master
These are three very fine, even great, novels. Of course, one doesn't simply dash through Bellow. Each page requires and rewards close reading. While Bellow has been criticized for putting some things in his novels to show off his vast erudition, I found those details interesting and that they contributed to an understanding of the characters in each story.

The first novel is also the shortest. "Seize the Day" is about a middle-aged man who has lost his way in life. Tommy Wilhem can't escape his father or his wife. He hasn't ever found a way to get a footing in life or to carve out a place of success for himself. Tommy's mother died too soon, and it seems his father is living too long. Not that we wish the old guy would die, but because he is so focused on himself that ... Read More

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- The best of Bellow in one great volume
This remarkable volume contains what are in my opinion the three best novels of Bellow. One is the remarkable short novel, 'Seize the Day' the second is his African adventure the wildly comic 'Henderson' the third , his arguably best book, 'Herzog'. Herzog is his great meditation on history and civlization as he traces five - days in the life of Moses Herzog, a former university teacher, a historian, who is struggling to survive in the wake of his divorce from his second wife. In the course of this work Herzog writes letters to the living and the dead, including the famous dead a feature which gives special life to the book. In 'Seize the Day' the upper West Side of New York is the scene of the hero, Tommy Wilhelm's loss of a hold on his own life. As he pleads for money with his successful ... Read More

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