Published to coincide with the publication of other Bellow novels.
Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist has been marked with numerous literary prizes, including the 1976 Nobel Prize, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. His other books include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, More Die of Heartbreak, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize The Day and The Victim. Saul Bellow died in 2005.Cynthia Ozick (b.1928 ) is an American writer whose works are about Jewish American life. Ozick Her most recent novel, Heir to the Glimmering World (2004), has received much praise in the literary press. She was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize
A profoundly true image of human existence . . . This is the
intense world of the ordinary, about to burst forth into the
radiance of consciousness * The New York Times *
What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow's eye and
ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards
of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow's
vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond
it * Chicago Times *
A small masterpiece...I enjoy Saul Bellow in his spreading
carnivals and wonder at his energy -- V.S. Pritchett
Bellow's pre-eminence rests not on sales figures and honorary
degrees, not on rosettes and sashes, but on incontestable
legitimacy. To hold otherwise is to waste your breath. Bellow sees
more than we see - sees, hears, smells, tastes, touches... Bellow
will emerge as the supreme American novelist. The only American who
gives Bellow any serious trouble is Henry James -- Martin Amis
Saul Bellow was a brilliant man, a master of English prose and
supreme chronicler of modernity and its torments. -- Ian McEwan
It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he
is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day
-- and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of
not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift
that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction
* The New York Times *
Saul Bellow was the American writer supreme . . . our most
exuberant and melodious postwar novelist -- John Updike
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