Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art

Mikics, David

ISBN 10: 0393246876 / ISBN 13: 9780393246872

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2016

About this Item

272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Page 118 corner creased. Record # 470290.

Seller Inventory # 470290

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393246876
• ISBN 13: 9780393246872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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 of literature. As Mikics argues, "Bellow is our novelist of personality in all its wrinkles, its glories and shortcomings. Only through personality, he tells us, can we know the world."

About the Author

David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age and Bellow's People, and his writing has appeared in Tablet, the New Republic and The New York Times.