Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories

Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories
Author :
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
Total Pages : 254
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781623730352
ISBN-13 : 162373035X
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories by : Saul Bellow

Download or read book Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories written by Saul Bellow and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five of Saul Bellow’s most moving, richly textured, and exquisitely plotted short stories make up this volume, each providing a history of personality and self-awakening. The title story, “Him with His Foot in His Mouth,” follows a musicologist narrator who for years has scattered wounding witticisms “from the depths of my nature, that hoard of strange formulations.” As the story unfolds he tries to discover what led him into a “deep legal-financial hole,” while he awaits extradition from a refuge in British Columbia. “What Kind of Day Did You Have?” follows a divorced suburban woman and her lovers—would-be and actual—through a frantic day in their lives. Their needs and passions, as well as their comic conflicts, are matters of life and death. In “Zetland: By a Character Witness” and in “A Silver Dish,” Bellow returns, with his unequaled command of eloquent recollected detail, to a bygone Chicago, “Zetland” is a brilliant portrait of an artist as a young boy and a man, precocious and eccentric; “A Silver Dish” is a memorable story of a raffish, willful father and his affectionate son. “Cousins,” the final story in the volume, explores the mysteries of family feeling—mysteries that defy both logic and the worthiness of their objects, as Ijah Brodsky, successful in the larger world, is drawn into an encounter with criminal and naively idealistic forces. This collection represents a turning point in the bountiful career of Saul Bellow, a felicitous rendering of the human condition in all its absurd complexity.


Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories Related Books

Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Saul Bellow
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-18 - Publisher: Odyssey Editions

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Five of Saul Bellow’s most moving, richly textured, and exquisitely plotted short stories make up this volume, each providing a history of personality and sel
Him With His Foot in His Mouth
Language: en
Pages: 78
Authors: Saul Bellow
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-15 - Publisher: Penguin UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

�We were friends, somehow.But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy.All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious frie
Watch Your Mouth
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Daniel Handler
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Harper Collins

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way.In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to
Saul Bellow and the Decline in Humanism
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Michael K. Glenday
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-06-18 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a study revealing Saul Bellow's views on the decline of humanism. With chapters on each of Bellow's novels from "Dangling" to "More Die of Heartbreak",
The Imperial Banner
Language: en
Pages: 435
Authors: Nick Brown
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-07 - Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

272 AD The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran revolt. Faridun's Banner, hallowed battle standard of the Persian Empire,