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Handsome is : adventures with Saul Bellow : a memoir / by Harriet Wasserman.
LIBRA - Special PS3503.E4488 Z92 1997b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wasserman, Harriet.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bellow, Saul--Friends and associates.
- Bellow, Saul.
- Wasserman, Harriet.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Literary agents.
- Friends and associates.
- United States.
- Wasserman, Harriet--Friends and associates.
- Literary agents--United States--Biography.
- Friendship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fromm International Pub., 1997.
- Summary:
- Harriet Wasserman presents a rare, intimate portrait of Saul Bellow, one of the leading figures of American letters, drawing from her thirty years with him as his literary agent and friend.
- Wasserman, who spoke to Bellow nearly every day during these years, lets us into a special relationship where she was not only Bellow's first reader and first-hand observer of his art, but also witness and trusted friend to the Saul Bellow behind the pages, seeing him: "stand on his head, hop on one booted foot up a mountain road, play the violin, dance the irish jig, make blueberry jam, shine the kitchen and bathroom with Formula 409, iron his pants after being caught in a downpour, accept the Nobel prize, and converse endlessly on every level about Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Marx Brothers, the Chicago Bulls, Dr. Ruth, tattoos and lip rings, beta-carotene, ethics, and on and on and on."
- OCLC:
- 903906939
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