Word: bellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frost brings 25% less than he did a decade ago, Hemingway is barely holding, and Faulkner is sluggish. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens' rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate prices on bookshop remainder tables after the author's Grendel gained a national reputation. Current worth for a mint copy...
Kollek's friends have ranged from Anwar Sadat, who called him "the most famous mayor in the world," to Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich. Another friend is Saul Bellow, who has provided a vivid portrait: "Kollek is ponderous but moves quickly-a furiously active man. His is a hurtling, not a philosophical soul. His face does not rest passively on its jowls ... His reddish hair falls forward when he goes into action... Everyone serves his ends, and no one seems harmed by such serving...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner /The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer /The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché /The Dean's December, Saul Bellow /Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler /The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
...nonsense prose prohibits moral posturing. All of these stories were written first in Yiddish, a language that draws rough vitality from the vernacular; Singer has seen to it that his many translators preserve the outspoken qualities of the originals. (Gimpel the Fool was rendered in English by Saul Bellow, a rare instance of one future Nobel laureate transcribing another.) And the passage of time has ratified Singer's vision of the living and the dead busily coexisting. The places of many of his stories are no more, their inhabitants long since slaughtered or dispersed. But they exist on these...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner∙The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché The Dean's December, Saul Bellow A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux The Villa Golitsyn, Piers Paul Read