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Ravelstein.
by Bellow, Saul
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 2000. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's final novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Tina Gotte Saul Bellow." Fine in a fine dust jacket. A cause for celebration...Bellow hugs the modern world hard in this novel...Ravelstein is rich, deep, and unnervingly entertaining" (Jonathan Wilson, The New York Times Book Review).
Synopsis
Ravelstein is Saul Bellow's final novel. Published in 2000, when Bellow was eighty-five years old, it received widespread critical acclaim. It tells the tale of a friendship between two university professors and the complications that animate their erotic and intellectual attachments in the face of impending death. The novel is a roman à clef, written in memoir-form. The narrator is in Paris with Abe Ravelstein, a renowned professor, and Nikki, his lover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 174
- Title
- Ravelstein.
- Author
- Bellow, Saul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Ravelstein First Edition, Ravelstein Signed First Edition, Saul Bellow Ravelstein First Edition
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About Raptis Rare Books
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