- Africa, Dreams, Fiction, Comedy
Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa.
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Prestige, classical in form, contemporary and warm.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Saul Bellow
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 341
- Publisher
- Weidenfield and Nicholson, Secker & Warburg, The Viking Press
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780297176756
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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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