

The Actual
Author: Saul Bellow
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 07/16/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Classic
Author: Saul Bellow
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 07/16/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Classic
Saul Bellow (1915–2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He was also the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and many other awards and honors.
Winner of the prestigious Audie Award (for History and Audio Drama), veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. A seven-time Audie nominee with over 100 unabridged audiobooks to his credit, Robert has also earned multiple Earphones Awards, including for his narration of Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Robert has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, John Steinbeck, Carlos Fuentes, Isaac Asimov, Ellery Queen, Steve Berry, Jeffrey Deaver, and Nele Neuhaus, plus bestselling nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, and business.
"I stood back from myself and looked into Amy's face. No one else on all this earth had such features. This was the most amazing thing in the life of the world." [p. 104] I think what makes this book great is not that it is a love story or the story of two lives that come to accept each other, but ra......more
"A man's road back to himself is a return from his spiritual exile, for that is what a personal history amounts to- exile." This was beautiful. Language not quite flowery but more so intimately tied to 'life.' Simple clear-cut intelligent sharp sentences. Yet again, Hemingway-esque, which is ironic c......more
Creo que he tardado demasiado tiempo en descubrir a Saul Bellow. El tono con el que narra su historia es, probablemente, uno de los más logrados que he leído nunca. La trama, en sí, no tiene importancia, aunque pueda parecer pintoresca en un principio: el narrador se reencuentra con el amor de su ad......more
Πέρυσι διάβασα για πρώτη φορά βιβλίο του Σολ Μπέλοου, την ενδιαφέρουσα και πολύ καλογραμμένη νουβέλα "Άδραξε τη μέρα", μένοντας ικανοποιημένος τόσο από την ιστορία όσο κυρίως από τη γραφή και την ψυχογραφική ικανότητα του συγγραφέα. Τώρα, όμως, δεν μπορώ να πω ότι δηλώνω εξίσου ικανοποιημένος, μιας......more
“A mature distillation of Mr. Bellow’s work…a gem.” New York Times
“[A] wonderful book…fully worthy of a place in its author’s vastly esteemed oeuvre.” - Chicago Tribune
“The work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time.” New York Times Book Review
“An achingly simple cry from the heart that reads like a parting love letter. Essential for all collections.” Library Journal