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Saul Bellow

Letters

by Benjamin Taylor

Saul Bellow

Hardcover, 571 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $35 | purchase

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Book Summary

Presents a selection of previously unpublished correspondence by the late Nobel Prize- and three-time National Book Award-winning writer, spaning eight decades and including letters written to such contemporaries as William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, and Cynthia Ozick.

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  • Correspondence,
  • Bellow, Saul,
  • Authors, American,
  • 20th century

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Letters

March 15, 2011 The famed writer doled out hundreds of letters to friends, enemies, multiple wives, ex-wives and lovers. Writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein recommends a hefty collection of Bellow's works of correspondence — brimming with savory morsels of masterful prose.

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