It All Adds Up: From a Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

<p><b>Saul Bellow</b>'s fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first nonfiction collection, which encompasses articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces, and an "Autobiography of Ideas." <b>It All Adds Up</b> is a fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (<b>The London Times</b>).</p> <p>Saul Bellow, who will be celebrating his 80th birthday in June 1995, offers an eclectic collection of insightful views on a wide variety of topics, ranging from a tribute to Mozart to remembrances of friends such as John Cheever and Allan Bloom to myriad ruminations on his beloved city of Chicago. NPR sponsorship. </p>

Author(s): Saul Bellow  

ISBN 10: 0140233652
ISBN 13: 9780140233650
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Publication: June 1995
Edition: ~