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Ravelstein
Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow's moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publish Date: May 12nd, 2015
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.10in - 0.60in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780143107576
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Biographical & Autofiction
About the Author
GARY SHTEYNGART is the author of three novels and a memoir, Little Failure. His work has won the Stephen Crane Award and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. He lives in New York City.
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What people are saying
Interested in History, Islam, India, Nazria e Pakistan and the genetics and epigenetics of obesity. Opinions can change. Twitter is for testing them
@zenpundit @whsieh @MartinSkold2 @AviWoolf It also got Saul bellow (at age 85) to write "ravelstein" :)
Gabriel Bump is a novelist.
100 pages into Ravelstein. Here are my Major Saul Bellow rankings. Will read several times: Herzog Will recommend: HG, Ravelstein Will destroy: Rain King, Sammler. If you’re feeling wild, got time to kill: Augie Now, please, let me see my family.
Assistant Prof & Director Undergrad Writing @sfcny Editor @hanginglooseny Loose Translation Award. Latest books: WEIRD GIRLS and FILTHY CREATION
“There are times when I need to ride in the subway at rush hour or sit in a crowded movie house—that’s what I mean by a humanity bath. As cattle must have salt to lick, I sometimes crave physical contact.” —Saul Bellow, Ravelstein
Praise for this book
This book rings with laughter and joy....Ravelstein is an extraordinary character...it is hard not to feel privileged at being allowed a glimpse into a human connection as intimate and rewarding as this one. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World (front-page review)
"With his new novel, Saul Bellow proves that he still dominates. . . . Ravelstein is full of heart and wisdom, and I want to praise it without a pinch of qualification. Sven Birkerts, Esquire
A cause for celebration...Bellow hugs the modern world hard in this novel...Ravelstein is rich, deep, and unnervingly entertaining. Jonathan Wilson, The New York Times Book Review (front-page review)
What people are saying
Interested in History, Islam, India, Nazria e Pakistan and the genetics and epigenetics of obesity. Opinions can change. Twitter is for testing them
@zenpundit @whsieh @MartinSkold2 @AviWoolf It also got Saul bellow (at age 85) to write "ravelstein" :)
Gabriel Bump is a novelist.
100 pages into Ravelstein. Here are my Major Saul Bellow rankings. Will read several times: Herzog Will recommend: HG, Ravelstein Will destroy: Rain King, Sammler. If you’re feeling wild, got time to kill: Augie Now, please, let me see my family.