SAUL BELLOW'S HEART

In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest look inside the life of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, his son, Greg Bellow, offers a view no one else has of a man known to be quick to anger, prone to argument, politically conser-vative, and palpably vulnerable to criticism.

Yet there was a bond of tender emotion between Saul Bellow and Greg, his firstborn. Greg gives voice to a side of Saul unknown to most others, the "Young Saul"- emotionally accessible, rebellious, irreverent, and ambi-tious. Saul's accessibility and lightheartedness waned as he aged, and his social views hardened. This is the "Old Saul" most known to the world, and these changes taxed the relationship between the two but theirs were differences of mind, not of heart. In his memoir, Greg Bel-low gives equal weight to the rebellious, irreverent, and ambitious young writer who raised him, and the older literary giant, famous and fiercely private. Gregory Bellow was a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for forty years and remains a member of the Core Faculty of The Sanville Institute. He lives in Redwood City, California.