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020			_a9780143107576
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082			_a813.52 _bBEL-R
100			_aBellow, Saul
245			_aRavelstein / _cby Saul Bellow
260			_aNew York: _bPenguin Books, _c2015
300			_ap. XVII,201
520			_aAbe 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 heartfelt 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.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aAmerican Literature
650			_aAmerican Fiction
650			_aAmerican Novel
650			_aEnglish Fiction
650			_aEnglish Novel
650			_aPsychological Fiction
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