{"product_id":"ravelstein-9780143107576","title":"Ravelstein","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner's moving final novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeeply insightful, Saul Bellow's moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking's first publication of \u003ci\u003eRavelstein\u003c\/i\u003e. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart, it rounds out the entirety of Bellow's major works in Penguin Classics black spine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSAUL BELLOW \u003c\/b\u003e(1915-2005) won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel \u003ci\u003eHumboldt's Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, he was presented the National Book Award Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGARY SHTEYNGART \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three novels and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eLittle Failure\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has won the Stephen Crane Award and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523481768210,"sku":"9780143107576","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7c4cc182-5526-4ddf-bded-92e4b77f2976.jpg?v=1731148436","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ravelstein-9780143107576","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}