The Actual

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'Bellow's prose remains a source of constant pleasure' Martin Amis, Observer Harry Trellman doesn't fit in. He has always been a loner, a drifter, haunted by the bittersweet memory of a lost love. After somé shady business dealings in the Far East, he returns to his home town of Chicago, where he hooks up with 'heavy-money Jews' and small-time con men. Coincidence brings him together with his high-school sweetheart Amy Wustrin, widowed and grown old in the arms of other men, but still the only woman he has ever loved... 'Remarkable ... a brilliant new novella ... [Bellow] conducts his narrative through fond territories - big businesses, small crooks, murder contracts, exhumations, marriages "in the final stages of black underwear"... exceptionally smart' Galen Strawson, Independent on Sunday 'A literary miracle ... Does Bellow get older, or just better?' Linton Chiswick, Time Out 'To be relished ... for the still-mischievous, mordant wit... the magisterial prose, the elegantly... Tovább

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'Bellow's prose remains a source of constant pleasure' Martin Amis, Observer Harry Trellman doesn't fit in. He has always been a loner, a drifter, haunted by the bittersweet memory of a lost love. After somé shady business dealings in the Far East, he returns to his home town of Chicago, where he hooks up with 'heavy-money Jews' and small-time con men. Coincidence brings him together with his high-school sweetheart Amy Wustrin, widowed and grown old in the arms of other men, but still the only woman he has ever loved... 'Remarkable ... a brilliant new novella ... [Bellow] conducts his narrative through fond territories - big businesses, small crooks, murder contracts, exhumations, marriages "in the final stages of black underwear"... exceptionally smart' Galen Strawson, Independent on Sunday 'A literary miracle ... Does Bellow get older, or just better?' Linton Chiswick, Time Out 'To be relished ... for the still-mischievous, mordant wit... the magisterial prose, the elegantly elegiac sensibility' Malcolm Bradbury, The Times '[A] sublime tale of foiled passión ... a taut, elegant, subtle and eloquent novella ... Bellow creates one of the most tenderly rendered and unlikely declarations of love that I have ever encountered' a. l. Kennedy, Scotsman 'His powers of observation are as acute as ever, and his wit as penetrating ... Bellow writes now with as much authority and energy as he did nearly half a century ago' Washington Post Vissza