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Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary."
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Classical in form, contemporary, prestige and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Saul Bellow
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 335
- Publisher
- Delta, William Morrow & Co, Penguin Classics
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780688069353
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“Last year while he was passing through a crisis in his life my Uncle Benn (B. Crader, the well-known botanist) showed me a cartoon by Charles Addams.”
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.[2] He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow
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