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HERZOG

by Saul Bellow

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New York: Viking. 1964. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Closed tear to upper edge of front panel .

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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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Title
HERZOG
Author
Saul Bellow
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Edition
Book Club Edition
Publisher
Viking
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1964

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Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Book Club Edition
A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Good+
A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.

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