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02244aam a22003978i 4500 001 98A65794F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 231026s2024 inu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2023049921 020 $a 0253069432 020 $a 9780253069436 020 $a 0253069440 020 $a 9780253069443 035 $a (OCoLC)1393204613 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-cn--- $a n-cn--- 050 00 $a PS3503 E4488 Z8595 2024 100 1 $a Sorin, Gerald, $d 1940- $e author. 245 10 $a Saul Bellow : $b "I was a Jew and an American and a writer" / $c Gerald Sorin. 264 1 $a Bloomington, Indiana : $b Indiana University Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm, 490 0 $a The modern Jewish experience 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Born in 1915 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Saul Bellow was raised in the small town - "a medieval" shtetl he called it - of Lachine, Quebec, and then in a predominantly Jewish section of Montreal until the age of nine. He had a trilingual childhood which included Yiddish as well as English and French. In an insightful new look at Bellow's life and career, Gerald Sorin argues that Bellow's immersion in Yiddish and childhood memories of the vibrant Jewish life on Montreal's Napoleon and Dominique streets continued to echo in his adult inner ear and permeated almost all of his writing. Much of Bellow's creative power, including the dynamic, comic, and lusty language that became his literary signature, was shaped and informed by the fact that he was Jewish"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Bellow, Saul. 650 0 $a Novelists, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish authors $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jews $z Canada $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jews $z United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sorin, Gerald, 1940- $t Saul Bellow $d Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2024 $z 9780253069450 $w (DLC) 2023049922 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717024902.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=98A65794F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search