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"Sammler, a New Yorker in his seventies, a refugee from Nazism, a thinker of complex thoughts, a touchstone around whom a heterogeneous group revolves, is not simply the protagonist but the prime mover of a many-sided novel held together by the centripetal force of his presence.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and open-ended.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Saul Bellow
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Penguin Classics, Viking Press
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780436039577
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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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