Described by George Walden in the Evening Standard as a 'biographical tour de force', James Atlas's long-awaited study is a magnificent portrait of the Nobel Laureate and titan of American literature, who, amongst other things, wrote Herzog, Humboldt's Gift and The Adventures of Augie March, married five times and had a child at the age of eighty-four.
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This biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow explores how the child of poor Russian Jewish immigrants became a world-famous author. It demonstrates how Bellow's work thrived on contradiction and adversity.
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'Not only a compelling story of a great and flawed writer, one who continues to demand our attention, but also a portrait of an extraordinary epoch in the history of American letters.' New York Times; 'An unusually successful biography about a difficult, unusual man... As Bellow himself once argued, the only justification for a book's existence is that it absorbs you, fully and without compromise. Even when you may not want it to, this book absorbs.' The Times
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James Atlas's book "Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet" was nominated for the National Book Award.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571209682
Publisert
2001-11-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
300 gr
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
704

Forfatter

Biographical note

James Atlas is a long-time contributor to the New Yorker and was an editor at the New York Times Magazine for many years. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review and many other journals. He is the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for a National Book Award.