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Book Description
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 convictioContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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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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Luca Leone said on Nov 28, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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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)
huntch said on Jun 15, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 240 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0141001763
- ISBN-13: 9780141001760
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Pub date: May 01, 2001
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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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)