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Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

Name: Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
Author: Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

This dazzling collection of shorter fiction describes a series of self-awakenings -- a suburban divorcee deciding among lovers, a celebrity drawn into his cousin's life of crime, a father remembering bygone Chicago, an artist, and an academic awaiting extradition for some unnamed offense.

“Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

Saul Bellow book Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

"Him with His Foot in His Mouth," from Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984) [Penguin Classics, 1998, ISBN 0-141-18023-4], p. 11
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