Professor Benn Crader knows microbiology, polar lichen, root systems, and Amazonian flora. But when it comes to the woman he is about to marry, he knows only that she is beautiful, rich , and her breasts are a little too far apart. And what he doesn't know about her is going to get him into one hell of a mess.
Professor Crader--and his adoring, Paris-educated, Russian-speaking nephew Kenneth--has been living a charmed life of rarefied conversation, fascinating thoughts, and brilliant discoveries. But now the woman Kenneth loves has left him in search of rougher sex, while Uncle Benn is about to marry into a family of midwestern penthouse piranhas. Suddenly, with the brilliant professor a step away from total ruin, the time for action has come. And for two men of intellect, only the most desperate deeds will do.
More Die of Heartbreak is Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow at the height of his literary and comic gifts. A novel of the loftiest ideas and the basest of instincts, More Die of Heartbreak pits two painfully clueless geniuses against the schemes of their family, their lovers, and mankind at its absolute best--and worst.
Editorial Reviews
"Bellow's comedy is cunningly planned: we rollick, then we pause to think." --Newsweek
"This Nobel laureate again proves he can give eloquent expression to the significant issues of modern life." --Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Saul Bellow, the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, is the author of numerous novels, novellas, and short stories, including The Adventures of Augie March and Humboldt's Gift.
