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It all adds up : from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection

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    Running Time: 13:30 hrs
    Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
    Publisher:
    Blackstone Publishing, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Bellow, Saul
    Contributor: Hillgartner, Malcolm
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2019
    Summary:

    In this collection of more than thirty essays originally published in the New York Times, Esquire, and the New Republic, Saul Bellow ranges fluidly across topics as various as the talents of President Roosevelt, the economic narrative of Jay Gatsby, and childhood adventures in Chicago.

    Contents:
    • In the days of Mr. Roosevelt
    • Literary notes on Khrushchev
    • The French as Dostoyevsky saw them
    • A talk with the Yellow Kid
    • The sealed treasure
    • Facts that put fancy to flight
    • White House and artists
    • A matter of the soul
    • An interview with myself
    • Nobel lecture
    • Writers, intellectuals, politics : mainly reminiscence
    • The Jefferson lectures
    • The distracted public
    • There is simply too much to think about
    • Spanish letter
    • Illinois journey
    • Israel : the six-day war
    • New York : world-famous impossibility
    • The day they signed the treaty
    • My Paris
    • Chicago : the city that was, the city that is
    • Vermont : the good place
    • Winter in Tuscany
    • Isaac Rosenfeld
    • John Berryman
    • John Cheever
    • Allan Bloom
    • William Arrowsmith
    • A half life
    • A second half life.
    Genre:
    Essays
    Subject(s): American essays | Bellow, Saul
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781982672768, 1982672765, 9781982672775, 1982672773