About this title: 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, Henderson returns to the states to drastically change his life. Most of Bellow's novels are autobiographical, reaching into his own life and circle for plot and character, and in HENDERSON, the main character is reportedly based on a close friend--but ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140072693ISBN:0140072691
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. no rips or tears on pages, tanning on pgs, used stamp on outer pg edges, many creases & bends on cover, used sticker on spine, blk marker on first pg, stickers on back cover, all pages intact,... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Crest, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Fair. No Jacket as Issued. Some wear and rubbing to the covers with reading creases to the spine. Pages toned with age. Stains to the top and bottom that do not affect the text. Otherwise clean and would make a good reading copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140072693ISBN:0140072691
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"Henderson, milliardaire américain, abandonne tout pour courir l'Afrique.
Il se retrouve sacré « roi de la pluie » et compagnon d'un souverain africain qui a étudié la médecine chez les Blancs, mais se voit contraint pourtant de capturer le lion dans le corps duquel l'âme de son père a cherché refuge.
Henderson veut l'aider, mais l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions..."
"...in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuitof sanity can be a form of madness, too.
This book is filled with little gems like these. This is, by far, my favorite Bellow. He plots out the self-exploration of a millionaire with wit and humor, a look at what it is to love and be loved, and most importantly, the difference between what it means to be and become.
We are all looking for the truth, but in that search do we become slaves to our own falsehoods about ourselves and the world around us? This is just one of the questions that Bellow brought to the fore in the book...I think you should read it. I think everyone should read it. Really."
"My first full-length Bellow and I really liked it. Bellow writes a great story w/ an interesting, positive outlook. This is a book of mythical Africa, the Africa of dreams, which is pretty obvious by the plot description. Henderson, w/ internal cries of "I want, I want, I want" is an American man looking for his place in the world. My favorite piece is Henderson's description of Be-ers and Becomers: the be-ers are those people who are happy w/ where and who they are - they live purely in the moment and are thus able to achieve happiness. The becomers are those who are constantly looking to develop themselves, to move on, who are looking ahead and over their shoulder for what's next, thus missing out on the present. (I personally add another category - those who have no clue :)"
"I chose this as an anniversary offering in our book group, having only read Bellow's _Ravelstein_. It's a classic story of a mid-20th-century rich American pig (those of you who've read the book will know why I chose that noun) with soul-sick cravings for more of ~something~. He is a man, to use that time-worn New York expression, who knows what he knows but doesn't know what he doesn't know.
Hijinks ensue in this building-up novel, that is, a novel in which a man, presumably already grown, actually has the experiences in middle life that lift him from degradation to enlightenment. The book conjures _Huckelberry Finn_ and a few Conrad pieces, most notably _Heart of Darkness_."
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