The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" (The New York Times)--now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock...
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" (<...
A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fiction Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America s greatest writers. For more than sixty years he stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Here, collected 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 uncollected piece, By the St. Lawrence. With his larger-than-life characters, irony, wisdom, and unique humor, Bellow...
A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fiction Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebr...
In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner s moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art. This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking s first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary...
In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner s moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow s moving last novel is ...
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, the novel was hailed as a masterpiece (The New York Times Book Review). This beautifully designed Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Herzog features an introduction by Bellow s longtime friend Philip Roth. For more than...
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements This is the story of Moses Herzog a great suff...
