A Theft is a 1989 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. Bellow originally wanted to publish the book as a story or serial in a magazine such as The New Yorker, but his agent had trouble selling it to any magazine. Bellow, instead, chose to publish it as a book, and it was his first book to be published in …
In this wise and dazzling work of fiction, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and tragically about the tenacity of first love. ""The Actual" (is) the ultimate springtime story".--"San Francisco Chronicle Book Review".
The Closing of the American Mind is een boek van de Amerikaanse filosoof en criticus Allan Bloom, dat werd gepubliceerd in 1987, vijf jaar nadat Bloom in het tijdschrift The National Review een artikel had doen verschijnen waarin hij het niveau van de universiteiten in de Verenigde Staten hekelde. Daartoe aangespoord …
The Dean's December is a 1982 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. The first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, it is set in Chicago and Bucharest. The book's main character, Albert Corde, a meditative academic who faces a crisis, accompanies his Romanian-born …
The Adventures of Augie March is een schelmenroman van Saul Bellow, in 1953 gepubliceerd door Viking Press. Het is een van de boeken die in aanmerking komt voor de titel "Great American Novel". Het verhaal speelt zich af in de jaren dertig van de 20e eeuw tijdens de Grote Depressie en volgt Augie March van jeugd naar …
The Bellarosa Connection is a 1989 novella by the American author Saul Bellow. The book takes the form of an ongoing dialogue between the Fonstein family about the impact of the Jewish Holocaust. This is an especially significant story as it represents, along with Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow's most significant …