Bad Character
Andrew O’Hagan: Saul Bellow, 21 May 2015
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-64
by Zachary Leader.
Cape, 812 pp., £35, May 2015,978 0 224 08467 3 Show More
by Zachary Leader.
Cape, 812 pp., £35, May 2015,
“... and wanted to pore over the details of his marital agonies with friends. On a long journey with Herbert and Edith Gold, he ‘wailed and wept as we drove’, according to Herbert: ‘His need was exclusive, unflagging, draining.’ But Leader never trusts a single view; he checks letters and does interviews and finds that ... ”