Bellow, Saul

A young boy in Depression-era Chicago begins a career marked by failure until he finally achieves his success.

Kenneth has left his native Paris for the Midwest to live with his uncle. But as time passes the two men find themselves trying to figure out why gifted people seem to end up knee deep in the garbage dump of personal life.

Collects stories featuring such characters as art critic Victor Wulpy, cheeerful and tragic Hattie Waggoner, and death-bed witness Dr. Braun.

Moses Herzog engages in frantic letter-writing, trying to survive private disasters and those of modern civilization.