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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Jacket Condition:Fine. Harriet Wasserman presents a rare, intimate portrait of Saul Bellow, one of the leading figures of American letters, drawing from her thirty years with him as his literary agent and friend. Wasserman, who spoke to Bellow nearly every day during these years, lets us into a special relationship where she was t only Bellow's first reader and first-hand observer of his art, but also witness and trusted friend to the Saul Bellow behind the pages, seeing him: stand on his head, hop on one booted foot up a mountain road, play the.

Handsome Is: Adventures With Saul Bellow: A Memoir. It is a portrait of the artist at close quarters, and at a little distance; a confirmation of the deep autobiographical roots of Bellow's fiction; and a revelation of what it means to be the child, in this case one of three sons, of the most lavishly acclaimed American writer of the second half of the 20th century Joyce Carol Oates .

Handsome Is: Adventures With Saul Bellow by Harriet Wasserman is an ex-literary agent's revenge (Bellow fired her in favour of Andrew 'the Jackal' Wylie) setting out to reveal the male chauvinist pig behind the great man, while James Atlas?s long-awaited life split the critics utterly - i. .

Handsome Is: Adventures With Saul Bellow by Harriet Wasserman is an ex-literary agent's revenge (Bellow fired her in favour of Andrew 'the Jackal' Wylie) setting out to reveal the male chauvinist pig behind the great man, while James Atlas?s long-awaited life split the critics utterly - it seems one can't be objective about the king of subjectivity.

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Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages

Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to Bellow's fellow writers-William Faulkner, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, and Wright Morris. Intimate, ironical, richly observant, and funny, these letters reveal the influcences at work in the man, and illuminate his enduring legacy-the novels that earned him.

Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow, Harriet Wasserman (1997). Saul Bellow and the Decline of Humanism, Michael K Glenday (1990). Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination, Ruth Miller, St. Martins Pr. (1991). Bellow: A Biography, James Atlas (2000). Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976, Swedish Academy.

Harriet Wasserman was Saul Bellow's literary agent for 25 years. She was also his first reader, typist, comforter and (for a night) lover. 'Handsome Is'' ends with a quietly angry narrative of this episode, and its title is meant as a rebuke to Bellow for his misbehavior. Wasserman's grievance may well be justified.