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In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. Introduction by Philip Roth
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- Author
- Saul Bellow
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Czytelnik, Odeon
- Editions
- 74
- Language
- English, German, Chinese, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780143107675
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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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