Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without some such mental preamble, the saga of Eugene Henderson, the quixotic hero of Saul (The Adventures of Augie March) Bellow's new novel, is apt to seem little more than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet Henderson, he is (a) rich, (b) not a knight, (c) 55, (d) has nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family...
Nine Lives (Norwegian). The saga of a Norwegian fighting his way through a hell of ice and snow, escaping the Nazis...
...makes the top; he's a hit. Yet security is fleeting, even for an idol, and the saga ends with the sad refrain...
Nine Lives. The well-told saga of a Norwegian fighting his way through a hell of ice and snow, escaping the Nazis...
Nine Lives. The World War II saga of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian who spent more than a month in open snow escaping the Nazis, is related with intelligence...