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Herzog

by Bellow, Saul

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About This Item

New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First printing in first issue jacket with Bellow's photograph on rear panel of jacket. Later issue jackets have blurbs. Blue cloth still bright but front board has a faint dip in center. Period bookplate on front pastedown. Price intact jacket has light rubbing, light to moderate edgewear. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Synopsis

Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. His novel, Herzog, was the 1965 winner of the National Book Awards.  The protagonist in this story is Moses Herzog; a middle-aged failed academic whose career, so brilliant in the beginning has now ended. He has written one celebrated scholarly book, but is having immense trouble producing another. He has been through two failed marriages and fathered two children. He agonizes over his condition with good reason because mentally and emotionally, he is having a nervous breakdown. He has conversations with dead philosophers telling them the points on which he disagrees. Herzog does love his children and tries to be with them, but mostly he is an absentee father. He obsessively writes letters that he never sends, while he contemplates his past two marriages, his academic career and his infidelities. An intense, outstanding novel written with precision and vivid characterizations.

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Bookseller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
011057
Title
Herzog
Author
Bellow, Saul
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First American Edition
Publisher
The Viking Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1964
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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About Timothy Norlen Bookseller

I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.

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