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Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
David Mikics
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Description for Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
Hardcover. A leading literary critic's innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 438.
David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellow’s work through the real-life relationships and friendships that Bellow transmuted into the genius of his art. The book is divided into eight chapters on some of the extraordinary people who mattered most to Bellow—family members like his irascible brother Morrie; friends like the novelists and critics Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz and Allan Bloom; and wives and lovers. Bellow’s People is a perfect introduction to Bellow’s life and work and an incisive study of the art ... Read more
David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellow’s work through the real-life relationships and friendships that Bellow transmuted into the genius of his art. The book is divided into eight chapters on some of the extraordinary people who mattered most to Bellow—family members like his irascible brother Morrie; friends like the novelists and critics Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz and Allan Bloom; and wives and lovers. Bellow’s People is a perfect introduction to Bellow’s life and work and an incisive study of the art ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393246872
SKU
9780393246872
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About David Mikics
David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author, most recently, of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, and his writing has appeared in Tablet, the New Republic, and the New York Times.
Reviews for Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
"... a breezy, highly readable and often entertaining study of some important figures in the author’s life..."
Jay Parini - Literary Review "The book [Bellow's People] also makes one want to rediscover Bellow’s characters in all their Dickensian, tragi-comic brilliance, and read again his sentences, which shine with a rare intensity."
The National
Jay Parini - Literary Review "The book [Bellow's People] also makes one want to rediscover Bellow’s characters in all their Dickensian, tragi-comic brilliance, and read again his sentences, which shine with a rare intensity."
The National