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008			230110s2000 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a067084134X
040			_cQCPL _erda
082			_aFic
100	1		_aBellow, Saul _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRavelstein _c/ Saul Bellow
264		1	_aNew York : _bViking, _c2000
300			_a233 pages
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_aAbe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously -- and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's surprise he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS, and as Chick himself nearly dies.
650			_aPolitical science teachers _vFiction
650			_aAIDS (Disease) _xPatients _vFiction
655		7	_2lcgft _aPsychological fiction _910524
942			_2ddc _cBOOK