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A son's memoir
Bloomsbury Press
May 2014
On Sale: May 1, 2014
Featuring: Saul Bellow; Greg Bellow
240 pages
ISBN: 1608199975
EAN: 9781608199976
Kindle: B009SJZLWQ
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Saul Bellow was easily angered, prone to argument, and
palpably vulnerable to criticism, but according to his son,
his young father was also emotionally accessible, often
soft, and possessed of the ability to laugh at the world's
folly and at himself. Part of Greg Bellow's bond with his
father was grounded in that softness, in humor, and in the
set of egalitarian social values he followed. Saul Bellow's
accessibility and lightheartedness waned as he aged, and his
social views hardened, although he was, fundamentally, no
less vulnerable. His earlier tolerance for opposing
viewpoints all but disappeared, and his ability to laugh at
himself faded. These changes eroded much of the common
ground between Bellow and his son and taxed their
relationship so sorely that Greg often worried whether it
would survive. But theirs were differences of mind, not of
heart. This memoir gives equal weight to the young Saul Bellow--the
rebellious, irreverent, and ambitious young writer--who
raised Greg, and the older Saul Bellow, famous and fiercely
private. It paints a very human portrait of a man who hid
behind parabolic stories, jokes, metaphors, and partial
truths, never letting the public see his true self.
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