Saul Bellow's heart

"An intimate and honest portrait of a fiercely private man, of a moving father-son relationship, and of the family man behind the iconic writer... 'The greatest American author ever, in my view... His sentences seem to weigh more than anyone else's. He is like a force of nature...

He breaks all the rules... The people in Bellow's fiction are real people, yet the intensity of the gaze that he bathes them in, somehow through the particular, opens up into the universal' Martin Amis 'What Bellow had to tell us in his fiction was that it was worth it, being alive' Linda Grant 'The backbone of twentieth-century American literature has been provided by two novelists - William Faulkner and Saul Bellow. Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the twentieth century' Philip Roth 'If the soul is the mind at its purest, best, clearest, busiest, profoundest, then Bellow's charge has been to restore the soul to American literature' Cynthia Ozick Greg Bellow's bond with his famous-writer fathe.