James Atlas Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.

Set against the backdrop of Wall Street, this engaging narrative explores the intricacies of finance and the personal stories of those navigating its high-stakes environment. Through a blend of drama and insightful commentary, the book delves into the challenges and triumphs faced by its characters, highlighting themes of ambition, ethics, and the pursuit of success. Readers can expect a compelling mix of real-world financial dynamics and character-driven storytelling.

With this masterly and original work, A Biography , National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression, World War II, the upheavals of the sixties—and amid all the complexities of the Jewish-immigrant experience in America, which generated a vibrant new literature.Drawing upon a vast body of original research, including Bellow’s extensive correspondence with Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, and many other luminaries of the twentieth-century literary community, Atlas weaves a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most talented and enigmatic figures in American intellectual history.Detailing Bellow’s volatile marriages and numerous tempestuous relation-ships with women, publishers, and friends, A Biography is a magnificent chronicle of one of the premier writers in the English language, whose prize-winning works include Herzog , The Adventures of Augie March , and, most recently, Ravelstein .

As he makes his way through the 1960s from his suburban Chicago high school to Harvard and on to graduate studies at Oxford, Ben Janis continues to lust after girls and the literary life. (Nancy Pearl)

Delmore Schwartz, ein bedeutender amerikanischer Autor des 20. Jahrhunderts, schildert mit Leichtigkeit das Leben der Einwanderer in New York. In den Erzählungen von ʼDer Traum vom Lebenʼ, darunter die Titelgeschichte und ʼAmerika, Amerikaʼ, thematisiert er mit Ironie und Melancholie Familiengeschichten und Alltagsdramen.