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Mikics (Moores Distinguished Professor of English, Univ. of Houston; Slow Reading in a Hurried Age) adds a new and different approach to the vast body of research on author Saul Bellow. He examines in depth many of Bellow's major novels (The Adventures of Augie March, Humboldt's Gift, Ravelstein, etc.), but from the perspective of the persons he knew (friends, family, his spouses, fellow writers) and how he used their personalities and idiosyncrasies t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More