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Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Saul Bellow - Author

Janis Bellow - Editor

James Wood - Introduction by

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ISBN 9780142001646 | 464 pages | 29 Oct 2002 | Penguin | 5.55 x 8.38in | 18 - AND UP
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Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest living writers. For more than sixty years he has stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Now collected for the first time 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 volume to treasure for longtime Bellow fans, and an excellent introduction for new readers.

Preface by Janice Bellow

Introduction by James Wood

By the St. Lawrence
A Silver Dish
The Bellarosa Connection
The Old System
A Theft
Looking for Mr. Green
Cousins
Zetland: By a Character Witness
Leaving the Yellow House
What Kind of Day Did You Have?
Mosby's Memoirs
Him with His Foot in His Mouth
Something to Remember Me By

Afterword

"Mr. Bellow's gift for delineating the American scene...is unrivaled." —Michiko Kakutani, in The New York Times

"A feast.... One of the most rewarding collections of the year." —San Francisco Chronicle