The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 1: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 Contributor(s): Leader, Zachary (Author) |
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ISBN: 030738893X ISBN-13: 9780307388933 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | United States - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2014020092 |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (2.20 lbs) 864 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the literary scholar and biographer Zachary Leader, draws on unprecedented access to Bellow's papers, including much previously restricted material, as well as interviews with more than 150 of the novelist's relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before. Through detailed exploration of Bellow's writings, and the private history that informed them, Leader chronicles a singular life in letters, offering original and nuanced accounts not only of the novelist's development and rise to eminence, but of his many identities--as writer, polemicist, husband, father, Chicagoan, Jew, American. |