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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100142437298
ISBN-139780142437292
eBay Product ID (ePID)2417192
Product Key Features
Book TitleHerzog
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Epistolary, Literary
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorSaul Bellow
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10.8 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-265266
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"A feast of language, situations, characters, ironies, and a controlled moral intelligence . . . Bellow's rapport with his central character seems to me novel writing in the grand style of a Tolstoy-subjective, complete, heroic." - Chicago Tribune "Herzog has the range, depth, intensity, verbal brilliance, and imaginative fullness-the mind and heart-which we may expect only of a novel that is unmistakably destined to last." - Newsweek "A masterpiece" - The New York Times Book Review
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Grade ToUP
SynopsisIn one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. A Penguin Classic This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him--he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friends--Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. He writes unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, revealing his wry perception of the world and the innermost secrets of his heart. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Philip Roth.