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Synopsis

In this superb work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims of first love. Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman, has never belonged anywhere and is as awkward in his human attachments as he is gifted in observing the people around him. But HarryÂ's observational talents have not gone unnoticed by Â"trillionaireÂ" Sigmund Adletsky, who retains Harry as his advisor. Soon the old man discovers HarryÂ's intense forty-year passion for a twice-divorced interior designer, Amy Wustrin. At the exhumation and reburial of her husband, Harry is provided, thanks to Sigmund, perhaps the final means for disclosing feelings amassed over a lifetime. Written late in BellowÂ's career, The Actual is a maestroÂ's dissection of the affairs of the heart.

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