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    A Study Guide for Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish"
    A Study Guide for Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish"
    A Study Guide for Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish"
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    A Study Guide for Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish"

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    A Study Guide for Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535817202
    A Study Guide for Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish"

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      A Study Guide for Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish" - Gale

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      A Silver Dish

      Saul Bellow

      1978

      Introduction

      Saul Bellow's story A Silver Dish illustrates the skill of one of the greatest American authors of the twentieth century. The story spans a period from the middle of the Great Depression to the mid-1980s, showing the changes that time renders in both society and in one man's life. The main character, Woody Selbst, is one of Bellow's finest creations. A lonesome, successful businessman, Woody reminisces about the circumstances under which his father, a con man and thief, caused him to lose his scholarship to a seminary school, an act that redirected his entire life.

      Bellow, the 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, fills this long tale with acutely observed details and characters who are so unusual that they feel like they could only come from real life. Woven throughout the story are meditations about religion, death, and responsibility that one expects in Bellow's fiction. Long for a short story, A Silver Dish holds as much insight, humor, and wisdom as one may hope to find in a novel.

      This story was first published in the New Yorker in 1978 and was subsequently published in Bellow's 1984 collection Him with His Foot in His Mouth, which as of 2006 is in print.

      Author Biography

      Saul Bellow is considered one of the greatest writers America has ever produced, having won every major writing award available, including the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born on June 10, 1915, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. His parents, who had recently emigrated from Russia, moved the family to Chicago in 1924. After high school, Bellow attended the University of Chicago for two years then graduated with honors from Northwestern University in 1937, taking degrees in sociology and anthropology. He went on to do some post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, but soon

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