Him With His Foot in his Mouth, and Other Stories
New York, N.Y. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 294 pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor fep discoloration (bookplate removed?) Signed by the author, Saul Bellow, on the front free endpaper. The book includes five stories: Him with His Foot in His Mouth; What Kind of Day did You Have?; Zetland: By a Character Witness; A Silver Dish; and Cousins. Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Bellow was widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors. Bellow said that of all his characters, Eugene Henderson, of Henderson the Rain King, was the one most like himself. More