Winner of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, Saul Bellow was considered by many to be the best American novelist of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Later books, such as this one, are less well remembered than his earlier ones, but still demonstrate his mastery of the novel. This is a modern "tale of two cities" (Chicago and Bucharest, Rumania, but also a story of love and death. 312 pages. Short edge tears and some spine head wear on the unclipped jacket; modest wear on the book and small writing on the front end paper.