Collected Stories
This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterises this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider...
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This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterises this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation and a celebration of humanity. This volume contains a preface by his wife, Janis Bellow, and an introduction by James Wood. It is an essential collection.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140292893 (0140292896)
Publish date: November 28th 2002
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 442
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Anthologies,
Jewish,
Collections,
Short Stories,
Nobel Prize
This is my first Bellow read. Over the years I never bothered reading any of his books and overlooked them at the bookstores. This being my first volume was not that ecstatic. The presented anthology of 13 stories come with a mix bag of history, humor, irony, metaphysics, the Holocaust, nost...
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