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Ravelstein

Name: Ravelstein
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Author: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780143107576

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Published on May 12, 2015 | 224 Pages

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This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking’s first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart, it is the final novel of Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow and rounds out the entirety of his major works in Penguin Classics black spine.

Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow’s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

“The magic still sparks and flashes on the page…Masterful in its thoroughness and intricacy…the prose rings as clearly as a meditation bell.” —Roland Merullo, The Philadelphia Inquirer (front-page review)

“This book rings with laughter and joy….Ravelstein is an extraordinary character…it is hard not to feel privileged at being allowed a glimpse into a human connection as intimate and rewarding as this one.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World (front-page review)

“With his new novel, Saul Bellow proves that he still dominates. . . . Ravelstein is full of heart and wisdom, and I want to praise it without a pinch of qualification.” —Sven Birkerts, Esquire

“A cause for celebration…Bellow hugs the modern world hard in this novel…Ravelstein is rich, deep, and unnervingly entertaining.” —Jonathan Wilson, The New York Times Book Review (front-page review)

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He received his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 1937. His novel The Adventures of Augie March won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. His further awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt’s Gift (1975); the International Literary Prize for Herzog, for which he became the first American recipient; and the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by France to non-citizens. In 1976, Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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By Saul BellowIntroduction by Gary Shteyngart