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Ravelstein
Contributor(s): Bellow, Saul (Author)

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 ISBN: 0141001763     ISBN-13: 9780141001760
Publisher: Penguin Books
OUR PRICE: $20.90  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2001
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Annotation: A brilliant professor and his friend share a celebratory trip to Paris where they explore thoughts on mortality, philosophy, history, old suits, and friends old and new. The mood turns more somber once they return home and the professor succumbs to AIDS.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99056336
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.1" W x 7.76" L (0.42 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
- Topical - AIDS
- Topical - Friendship
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 05/11/2001 pg. 73
New York Times 05/20/2001 pg. 44
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies.

Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.
 
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