In time for the centennial of his birth one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievementsA
Penguin ClassicThis is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer joker mourner charmer
serial writer of unsent letters and a survivor both of his private disasters and those of the
age. Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964 the novel was
hailed as a masterpiece (The New York Times Book Review).This beautifully designed Penguin
Classics Deluxe Edition of Herzog features an introduction by Bellow s longtime friend Philip
Roth.For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature
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