Ravelstein

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• Write me up when I'm gone

  Ravelstein Saul Bellow Viking, £16.99, 233pp Buy it at BOL Is this fiction, exactly? Abe Ravelstein, the brilliant, self-mocking, high-living, ever-opinionated hero of Saul Bellow's new work, has asked the narrator, Chick, a favour. "I'd like you to ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Life and Saul

  Ravelstein Saul Bellow Viking £16.99, pp233 Buy it at BOL Saul Bellow's thirteenth novel is a quietly wayward piece of work, dealing with last things as befits an octogenarian (illness, death, the persistence or other wise of the soul) but resisting ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Perhaps you need to be more familiar with the apparently famous real academic (Alan Bloom) that this is based on but even after finishing this I was left wondering why base a whole novel on him. Perhaps a standard biography might have answered that question but I feel this book was written for the c ... (continue)

  Perhaps you need to be more familiar with the apparently famous real academic (Alan Bloom) that this is based on but even after finishing this I was left wondering why base a whole novel on him. Perhaps a standard biography might have answered that question but I feel this book was written for the cognoscenti who know the man.

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• English Books
• Others 240 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141188855
• ISBN-13: 9780141188850
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Pub date: Jan 31, 2008
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Audio Cassette
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