Description
Harry Trellman, an aging businessman with a sharp, restless mind, has spent his life feeling like an outsider—never quite fitting in the places that claim to define him. Sent through an orphanage and repeatedly pushed aside by institutions that misread his intelligence, he grows into a man who watches the world with both irony and unease. As he confronts the materialism and social performance around him, the story turns inward to examine how class shapes identity, how belonging is negotiated, and how contradictions can coexist within a single life. With Saul Bellow’s incisive, character-driven style, this modern classic blends social critique and psychological depth into a portrait of a man determined to understand what—if anything—makes him “belong.”
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paperback
Penguin Classic
Published Mar 25, 2008
128 pages
ISBN: 9780141188843
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First Published
2008
Language
eng
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