Saul Bellow
1) The actual
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Harry Trellman doesn't belong. Not in the Chicago orphanage where he is sent by his mother, not in high school (too brainy), not even on the streets. Human attachments? Yes, he has them, but they are like everything else in his life, singular and irregular. People who know him say that he "drowns his feelings in his face," and that he has a Mongolian "masked look." But though Harry stands apart, he has always been a most keen observer, listener, recorder,...
5) Herzog
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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xxvi, 371 p. ; 20 cm.
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A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
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[1959]
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The spirited adventures of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home in deepest Africa. The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire searching for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes.
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Library of America volume 141
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Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1029 p. ; 21 cm.
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Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as “the type that loses the girl”); and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes...
9) Zelig
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.