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Auteur: Saul Bellow
paperbackEngels400 blz.9780143107675
1e druk
31-1-2025
This is the story of Moses Herzog-a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Meer
paperbackEngels400 blz.9781451683202
1e druk
3-4-2012
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy (The New York Times)now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188805
25-10-2007
A story of a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life earns him the admiration of the tribe - but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero into messiah. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188836
31-1-2008
Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man's life, he half believes it. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188843
31-1-2008
The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188874
31-1-2008
In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints – from Prime Minister Rabin to a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw ghetto. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141184852
26-4-2001
Fading charmer, Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career, and in a financial mess. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188867
31-1-2008
Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother lies dying in a state hospital. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141184869
26-4-2001
A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188775
27-9-2007
When his induction into the army is delayed, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. This journal presents an account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188782
27-9-2007
A collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Some stories recount the events of a single day, while some are contained in a wider frame. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188799
27-9-2007
Kenneth Trachtenberg, has left his native Paris to be near his beloved uncle Benn Crader, who lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown". Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188812
25-10-2007
Mr Artur Sammler, intellectual and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of madness, a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141188850
31-1-2008
Abe Ravelstein is a professor who has lived much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests that he put forth a book of his convictions and much to his surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Meer
paperbackEngels368 blz.9780141184876
17-12-2024
Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age. Meer
GebondenEngels9781857152159
21-9-1995
The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America. Meer