Word: bellow
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...been a fan of [Bellow] for quite some time," said George Packer, a local enthusiast. " Ever since I read Bellow's first novel Dangling...
...attendance were students from English 178x: "The American Novel from Dreiser to the End of the Century"--a course that has Bellow's Herzog on the reading list...
Ravelstien, Bellow's first full-length novel in more than a decade, is loosely based on his friendship with Alan Bloom who was best known for his mid-1980's cultural commentary The Closing of American Minds in which he bemoaned the worthlessness of the modern liberal arts university education...
Many critics have expressed surprise at Bellow's candid account of his friendship with Bloom, who is now dead, that explores male friendship and Jewish culture. Bellow and Bloom became close friends while teaching together at the University of Chicago...
...There's no denying the engaging quality of Bellow's reflections on the power and mystery of friendship" wrote Ron Charles in his Christian Science Monitor review of Ravelstien. As audience members found out on yesterday evening, the novel begins in the early 1990s and documents Abe Ravelstein' s ostentatious lifestyle and tragic death from AIDS...