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1	Herzog more books like this by Saul Bellow HERZOG, one of Saul Bellow's most celebrated novels, portrays (via the hero's sad, manic, ironic letters) the slow decline of Moses Herzog, a failed writer, teacher, husband, and father, as he charges through life unable to face the mistakes that have crippled him and wounded those around him. Introspective, witty, and sharp, the novel provides an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Henderson the Rain King more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's comic fable, Eugene Henderson, a discontented 55-year-old American millionaire, decides that money and all that it can buy is not enough. He travels to Africa, lives with an African tribe, and becomes a god to the people there when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Humboldt's Gift more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's tragicomic HUMBOLDT'S GIFT (1975), the main character, Charlie Citrine, is a successful writer who is tortured by a feeling of emptiness and by his troubling memories. Through his friend (and sometime mentor), the poet Von Humboldt Fleischer, Citrine learns the importance of the spiritual; and, through the unlikely figure of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Seize the Day more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's title novella, Tommy Wilhelm, at 42, is in the midst of what seems to be a serious decline. He is separated from his wife and family, estranged from his father, unemployed, and broke. Over the course of one day, Tommy reviews the shape of his past and attempts to plot the course of his future--and has a valuable moment of insight ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Adventures of Augie March more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's exuberantly autobiographical novel, the larger-than-life Augie March begins as a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. Drifting from job to job, he falls in love with Thea, an eagle trainer, and develops schemes--each more grandiose and unrealistic than the last--for making money and becoming famous. THE ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Closing Amercn Min more books like this by Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow (Introduction by) A powerful critique, by a distinguished political philosopher, of the intellectual and moral confusions of our age, showing how American democracy has unwittingly played host to vulgarized Continental ideas of nihilism and despair, or relativism disguised as tolerance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.34! \| first editions \| SVS
7	MR Sammlers Planet more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's 1970 more-bitter-than-sweet novel about alienation and moral decay, Artur Sammler, a 70-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, spends his days quietly and pointlessly in New York. An intellectual and academic, he lectures occasionally at Columbia University but spends most of his time drifting about the city, trying to make sense of an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	More Die of Heartbreak more books like this by Saul Bellow Professor Benn Crader, an esteemed botanist, has been living a rarefied intellectual life. Then he marries a sublimely beautiful woman whose gorgeousness conceals a deeply avaricious nature: she and her family are plotting to involve him in a multimillion-dollar blackmail scheme. Crader's nephew Kenneth Trachtenberg narrates this story of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Victim more books like this by Saul Bellow An editor named Asa Leventhal is left alone in New York during a heat wave while his wife is away. He is accosted by a menacing and anti-Semitic man named Kirby Allbee, who angrily accuses him of ruining his life. Although he barely knows the man, Leventhal is haunted by him and comes to believe that Allbee must be telling the truth. In this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Him with his foot in his mouth and other stories more books like this by Saul Bellow In these short fictions (1984) from Nobel Prize-winning American writer Saul Bellow, ordinary people--except for the fact that they are often intellectuals--struggle to get along in a world of appearances, and to find the truth under the mask. The title story is about a tactless character, Dr. Shawmutt, who has little control over what he says, no ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Ravelstein more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's memoir-like and highly autobiographical novel, Abe Ravelstein is a well-known and highly respected professor of political philosophy--a character based on Bellow's good friend, the late Allan Bloom of the University of Chicago. Before Ravelstein dies from AIDS, he asks his friend Chick--a Bellowish novelist--to write his biography ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Dangling man more books like this by Saul Bellow Saul Bellow's first published novel portrays the thoughts and discomforts of Joseph, a young man in Chicago who quits his job in expectation of being drafted into the army during World War II. A series of bureaucratic snafus holds up his induction, however, and he finds himself with nothing to do for nearly a year. DANGLING MAN, the journal of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Adventures of Augie March: 6 more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's exuberantly autobiographical novel, the larger-than-life Augie March begins as a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. Drifting from job to job, he falls in love with Thea, an eagle trainer, and develops schemes--each more grandiose and unrealistic than the last--for making money and becoming famous. THE ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.10!
14 view cover	Collected stories more books like this by Saul Bellow Now collected for the first time in one volume and chosen by the author himself are the Nobel Prize winner's stories. "A feast . . . . One of the most rewarding collections of the year."--"San Francisco Chronicle." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Great Jewish short stories more books like this by Saul Bellow Saul Bellow edited this collection of stories by Jewish writers about Jewish characters. see all copies from $2.00! first editions
16 view cover	Dean's December more books like this by Saul Bellow In Saul Bellow's novel of academic life, Albert Corde, the middle-aged dean of an American college, is on sabbatical in Eastern Europe with his wife, who is visiting her dying mother. In a simple attempt to sort through the events of his own life, he becomes embroiled in diplomatic embarrassments and criminal cases, and finds that he understands ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	It All Adds Up: 8from the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future more books like this by Saul Bellow In this collection of essays, Bellow reveals his multifaceted personality and wide range of interests, with pieces about Mozart, FDR, Tuscany, Vermont, and his Chicago boyhood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The actual more books like this by Saul Bellow In this first major work in 10 years from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, Harry Trellman, the narrator, is an elderly Chicagoan who becomes the uneasy friend of Sigmund Adletsky, an even older millionaire. Adletsky shows Trellman how he must pick up his life with Amy Wustrin, a high school sweetheart he has never forgotten. As the story ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	A Theft more books like this by Saul Bellow Bellow's brief novella tells the story of a many-times-married socialite named Clara who pines for her first love and cherishes the emerald ring he gave her. When it is stolen, she seems to lose more than a piece of jewelry--she loses the source of whatever strength she has. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	To Jerusalem and Back more books like this by Saul Bellow In this "impassioned and thoughtful book" (The New York Times), Bellow records the opinions, passions, and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints -- Yitzhak Rabin, Amos Oz, the editor of the largest Arab-language newspaper in Israel, a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto -- and adds his own thoughts on being Jewish in the twentieth century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories more books like this by Saul Bellow This 1968 volume of six short stories by Saul Bellow includes two of his best--"Mosby's Memoirs" and "The Old System"--as well as four early stories that were originally included with his short novel SEIZE THE DAY upon its original publication: "Looking for Mr. Green," "The Gonzaga Manuscripts," "A Father-to-Be," and "Leaving the Yellow House." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison more books like this by Ralph Waldo Ellison, John F Callahan (Introduction by), Saul Bellow (Preface by) In this collection of essays and interviews, Ellison writes of literature and folklore, jazz and black culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. This volume includes the critically acclaimed works Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986). see all copies from $8.80! new only from $11.38! \| first editions \| SVS
23	To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account more books like this by Saul Bellow Bellow went with his third wife to Israel in 1975, interviewing politicians and people on the street in an attempt to understand the struggle between the Arabs and the Jews, but in the end he finds it overwhelming. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	To Jerusalem and Back: 2a Personal Account more books like this by Saul Bellow Bellow went with his third wife to Israel in 1975, interviewing politicians and people on the street in an attempt to understand the struggle between the Arabs and the Jews, but in the end he finds it overwhelming. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	The Bellarosa Connection more books like this by Saul Bellow Saul Bellow's very short novella is about a filthy-rich man known as "Mr. Mnemosyne," a memory specialist who is the head of a mnemonics group--and the novel's narrator. As he dredges up from his memory the story of Harry Fonstein, a Jewish refugee who escaped the Nazis, the narrator--an American-born Jew--surveys his own life as well, trying to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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