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Amy, an interior decorator, is hired to assess the value of furnishings in a luxury apartment the adletskys covetowned by bodo heisinger, whose wife madge was convicted and imprisoned for hiring a hit man to kill bodo, who nevertheless continued to adore her and secured her release. Saul bellow 19152005, author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three national book awards. Saul bellow books list of books by author saul bellow. A novella penguin classics bellow, saul, oneill, joseph on.
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