The Library of America’s landmark Saul Bellow Edition continues with a collection of three mid-career masterpieces.
“Wendell Berry gives us an intimate portrayal of the mind and heart of rural America. His graceful prose is truthful and eloquent. His tone is reliable and steady, like a good rain, sober and serious—all this and at times he is so funny you…
“Surely if one were to write perfectly, one would write like Thoreau.” — Washington Post Book World
“There are minds, argued James, and there is the world; psychology is the study of the interaction between them. Speculation about the deeper meaning of our thoughts belongs to metaphysics.” — Newsday
“These novels sneakily inaugurate modernism in English.” — Atlantic Monthly
“Has there ever been a poet who has written in so many voices? The good, relentless student quality which has made Merwin such a great translator, and brought him early success, when applied to language over a lifetime gives us the sound of…
“This impressive new volume is an uncharacteristically cheerful coda to David Goodis’s legacy. It will allow future generations to plunge into the luxurious sensation one experiences when reading a Goodis novel, even though it never lasts…