Ravelstein (Penguin Classics)

In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winners moving final novel

Deeply insightful, Saul Bellows moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art.

This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Vikings first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart, it rounds out the entirety of Bellows major works in Penguin Classics black spine.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.