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Saul Bellow was easily angered, prone to argument, and palpably vulnerable to criticism, but according to his son, his young father was also emotionally accessible, often soft, and possessed of the ability to laugh at the world's folly and at himself. This memoir gives equal weight to the young Saul Bellow - the rebellious, irreverent, and ambitious young writer - who raised Greg, and the older Saul Bellow, famous and fiercely private. It paints a very human portrait of a man who hid behind parabolic stories, jokes, metaphors, and partial truths, never letting the public see his true self.

Unverfälscht temperamentvoll präsentiert Marcel Reich-Ranicki Aufsätze und Kritiken zu den großen amerikanischen Schriftstellern, z. B. Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike und Philip Roth aber auch zu bedeutenden Autorinnen wie Joyce Carol Oates. Wie kein anderer Literaturkritiker bleibt er dabei der unbefangene Leser - immer auf der Suche nach Qualität...