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Herzog. (Signed First Edition)

Herzog. (Signed First Edition)

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Herzog. (Signed First Edition)

by Bellow, Saul

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About This Item

New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 341pp. Blue cloth blind stamped on the front and stamped in silver on the spine, top edge stained blue. Signed by Saul Bellow on the flyleaf. Two corner tips a tad bruised, very mild toning to endpapers. A bright near fine copy in very good dustjacket with one short closed tear to front panel, minute chipping, light toning to spine panel and mild foxing to the reverse. 1964 winner of the National Book Award. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.

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
Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
21894
Title
Herzog. (Signed First Edition)
Author
Bellow, Saul
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
The Viking Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1964
Keywords
LITERATURE, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction and Literature;

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About Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare

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Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Cloth
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Spine
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Fine
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First Edition
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