RavelsteinSaul BellowLabel: Penguin ClassicsDescription: Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously — and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind or kill it. Much to Ravelstein's own surprise the book makes him a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality philosophy and history loves and friends old and new
