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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
- Mahatma Gandhi
(1869 - 1948)
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ZIN Product Number: 10456638
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 Format: Hardcover, 286 pages
Edition: LARGEPRINT
Publisher: Gale Group
ISBN: 1568951272
Release Date: Jan 2, 2003
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies.
Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.
Author Biography: Saul Bellow is the author of twelve novels and numerous novellas and stories. He is the only novelist to receive three National Book awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet. In 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Humboldt's Gift. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him in 1976. In 1990 Mr. Bellow was presented the National Book Award Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.
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Bellow is back, but maybe not at his best
-- A reviewer, someone who likes e-mail, July 27, 2001
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The Nobel Prize-winning author's latest novel is more than a thinly-veiled biography of the conservative cultural gadfly Allan Bloom (The Closing of The American Mind). It's also an octogenarian's first full treatment of death and dying. The plot runs a bit thin, but Bellow's force as a thinker and psychologist remain undiminished. "Rich, deep and unnervingly entertaining"—Jonathan Wilson, New York Times
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"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book."
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