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BELLOW, SAUL (SOLOMON BELLOWS) - To Jerusalem and Back a Personal Account

Title: To Jerusalem and Back a Personal Account
Description: New York: Viking Press, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670717290. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There are a couple of small, light spots of discoloration to the front cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several tiny edge tears to the top cover, and several edge nicks and some edge wear to the to spine end. The top edges of the entire cover have some beginning toning. "Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0670717290 Author Biography Saul Bellow Personal Experiences Personal Narrative Jerusalem Israel Arab Israeli conflict The Six Day War

Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 40775

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