Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories

Bellow, Saul

| 1996

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?What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented, Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection. Truly, Bellow is one of God?s spies.? ?Los Angeles Times A Penguin Classic In six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. In the title story, a professor well-known for his wit struggles to animate his memoirs as he teeters on the brink of despair; in ?the old System,? a distinguished biochemist tries to find room in his life for love; and in ?A Father to Be,? a man is startled to find himself seated next to his future adult son on a New York subway. The other stories, too, reflect Bellow?s special ability to depict men and women confronting, in highly idiosyncratic ways, the enigmas and oddities of existence. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been...

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