Saul Bellow: Novels 1984-2000: (Library of America #260)

For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual cross-currents of his time, and a magnificent prose stylist. Gathered here are four shorter works What Kind of Day Did You Have? (1984), A Theft (1989), The Bellarosa Connection (1989), and The Actual (1997) along with More Die of Heartbreak (1987), a novel that changes the way you see everything (Martin Amis), and Bellow s extraordinary valedictory, Ravelstein (2000), about a professor of political philosophy made suddenly famous by an unlikely bestseller. Brimming with Bellow s characteristic wit and ebullience, but imbued with the awareness of approaching death, Bellow s final book is an unforgettable meditation on love and friendship, eros and mortality.