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Literature 5 1 /2 x 8 7 /16 464 pp. Rights: E00
Pub history: previous edition 978-0-14-200164-6
On sale: 8/27/2013
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“ This is our greatest
writer’s greatest
book.”
—Martin Amis
“ Bellow’s gift for delineating
the American scene . . .
remains unrivaled.”
—Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
A collection of treasured stories by the
unchallenged master of American fiction
Collected Stories
Saul Bellow
Edited with a Preface by Janis Bellow
Introduction by James Wood
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated
as one of America’s greatest writers. For more than sixty years he
stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his
exhilarating perceptions of life. Here, collected in one volume
and chosen by the author himself, are favorites such as “What
Kind of Day Did You Have?”, “Leaving the Yellow House,” and
a previously uncollected piece, “By the St. Lawrence.” With his
larger-than-life characters, irony, wisdom, and unique humor,
Bellow presents a sharp, rich, and funny world that is infinitely
surprising. This is a collection to treasure for longtime Saul
Bellow fans and an excellent introduction for new readers.
n Includes an introduction by James Wood and a preface by
Janis Bellow, the author’s wife
saul Bellow (1915–2005) was the author of nearly twenty
works of literature, including Seize the Day, The Adventures of Augie
March, The Victim, Herzog, and Humboldt’s Gift. He taught at the
University of Chicago and Boston University.
Janis Bellow teaches literature at Tufts University. She was
married to Saul Bellow from 1989 until his death in 2005. She spends
as much time as possible in Vermont, where she lives for several
months each year with her daughter, Rosie.
JaMes wooD is a staff writer at the New Yorker, a visiting lecturer
at Harvard University, and the author of the national bestseller
How Fiction Works and a novel, The Book Against God. He lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.