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Henderson the Rain King
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Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
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I am a Saul Bellow fan, and whilst I enjoyed Henderson the Rain King, it seemed to lack something. The story is about Gene Henderson a loud and obnoxious American millionaire who one day decides to go to Africa to satisfy some inner need. The first third of the book is very amusing culminating in his extermination of the frog plague and unfortunatel... »
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Mosby's Memoirs And Other Stories
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Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
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Of the six stories in this collection only one moves deeply and is truly memorable, " The Old System". I consider this to be one of Bellow's finest works and a true masterpiece. It is also I think his most deeply Jewish work , and one which he shows an understanding of American worlds and times in his own powerful distinctive idiomatically rich and spe... »
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Humboldt's Gift
In HUMBOLDT'S GIFT (1975), Bellow starts with the character Von Humboldt Fleisher, who is a rich and contradictory personality. He's brilliant about high ... »
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Ravelstein
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Saul Bellow confined himself to shorter fictions. Not that this old master ever dabbled in minimalism: novellas such as ... »
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Herzog
A novel complex, compelling, absurd and realistic, Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the ... »
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The Bellarosa Connection
For most of this novella, Bellow tells a story that appears to be going nowhere. The narrator, the child of Jewish immigrants who has become ionospherica... »
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Adventures of Augie March
Augie March is a modern Coloumbus discovering America. Bellows, master of the complicated single character narrative, paints Augie's childhood strongly i... »
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