Bellow - Hardcover

Atlas, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394585011 ISBN 13: 9780394585017

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2000

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Book by Atlas James

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Chronicles the life of the Nobel Prize-winning writer, focusing on the period between 1944 and 1976 that saw the creation of such modern classics as "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Humbolt's Gift."

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iginal, Bellow: A Biography is an extraordinary achievement, the brilliant and long-awaited biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author of Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, and other bestsellers. National Book Award nominee James Atlas here gives the first definitive account of Bellow's turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events--the Depression, World War II, the upheavals of the sixties--and amid all the complexities of the Jewish-immigrant experience in America, which generated a vibrant new literature.
          Saul Bellow's parents fled Russia in 1913 and settled with relatives in Canada, where Saul was born. Bellow's boyhood in Quebec and Chicago, marked by his family's transient existence and struggle for economic survival (his father was a bootlegger for a time), provided inspiration for many of the memorable characters and scenes that animate his fiction. It was in Ch

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0394585011
• ISBN 13: 9780394585017
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 704