| Bellow: A Biography Contributor(s): Atlas, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375759581 ISBN-13: 9780375759581 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $27.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001056270 |
| Series: Modern Library Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 1.72" H x 5.59" W x 8.49" (2.01 lbs) 736 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize-winning author'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. Drawing upon a vast body of original research, including Bellow's extensive correspondence with Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, and many other luminaries of the twentieth-century literary community, Atlas weaves a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most talented and enigmatic figures in American intellectual history. Detailing Bellow's volatile marriages and numerous tempestuous relation-ships with women, publishers, and friends, Bellow: A Biography is a magnificent chronicle of one of the premier writers in the English language, whose prize-winning works include Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, and, most recently, Ravelstein. |