Author of the Week

SAUL BELLOW
Saul Bellow (born June 10, 1915), acclaimed North American-Jewish writer, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1976 and is best known for writing novels which investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation and the possibilities of human awakening. While on a Guggenheim fellowship in Paris, he wrote most of his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March. After his parents emigrated from St. Petersburg, he was born in Lachine, Quebec and then schooled in the United States. Bellow has taught at the University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Boston University. He currently (March, 2004) is University Professor and Professor of English at Boston University. [Read more]

Dangling Man
Penguin Books, 1994 (PhP 100.00)
Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. "Dangling Man" is his journal, a wonderful 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.

Herzog
Fawcett Crest, 1970 (PhP 80.00)
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Winner of the $1,000 International Literary Prize. Herzog is the story of Moses Herzog, great sufferer, joker and moaner, cuckold, charmer, a man of our time. Seeing himself as a survivor, not only of his private disasters but also those of the age, Herzog cannot keep from asking what he calls the "piercing" questions. The answers he finds will matter not only to him but to readers of Saul Bellow's magnificent novel.

Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
Penguin Books, 1969 (PhP 80.00)
This is an unusually fine collection, often deeply moving, written by one of the greatest literary artists that America has produced. The human comedy--preposterous, affecting, and pathetic--is brilliantly portrayed in six stories that center on individuals contending with their intractable and capricious fates.

The Dean's December
Pocket Books, 1983 (PhP 80.00)
"The Dean's December" is renewed testament to a grand career, our greatest since Faulkner's and Frost's, at an age when most writers are hopelessly repeating themselves, Bellow is still finding good new things to do. This is his first novel since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.

The Victim
Penguin Books, 1988 (PhP 100.00)
With his wife away visiting her mother, Asa Leventhal is left alone to cope with a hot New York summer and the paranoia brought on by the return of an old acquaintance. On the surface this is a competent little story about a solemn and touchy Jew accused by a fantastic Gentile of having ruined him. But it has a troubling depths of meaning which make it unusual among new novels. "The Victim" rates as a subtle and thoughtful contribution to the literature of twentieth-century anti-Semitism.

To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account
Avon Books, 1976 (PhP 80.00)
Among the most memorable characters ever portrayed by Saul Bellow are Israel's Prime Minister Rabin, Jerusalem's Mayor Teddy Kollek, Henry Kissinger, and Bellow's wife, Alexandra. Each is seen through the eyes of America's premier novelist in his first work of nonfiction, "To Jerusalem and Back." It is the engrossing story of several months pent in a land of cultural and spiritual wealth, of social elegance and ceremonial pageantry, of lush beauty in a once-barren desert, a land where battle rages over the horizon, and where even the most basic right, the right to survive, cannot be taken for granted.