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Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life.
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in a ...Show more
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times London]) A Penguin Classic "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have." --The New York Times Book Review In It A ...Show more
Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
$3.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos ...Show more
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Abe Ravelstein is a professor who has lived much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests that he put forth a book of his convictions and much to his surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir. But, the mood turns somber once Ravelstein su ...Show more
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Tommy Wilhelm has failed to make it big as an actor, left his family and lost his job. His successful father lectures him about changing his life. But he clings to the hope that his luck is about to turn and has given his last $700 to Dr Tamkin to invest. Is Tamkin ripping him off? Or does he offer him ...Show more
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