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Herzog
by Saul Bellow
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.5in. 341pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows a hint of shelf rubbing, endpapers with a hint of toning, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows several small nicks and short closed tears, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
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
- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30299
- Title
- Herzog
- Author
- Saul Bellow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
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