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The Dean's December is a 1982 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. It is his ninth novel, and the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
- Saul Bellow
- 1982
The Dean's December. Saul Bellow. 3.57. 1,438 ratings122 reviews. Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his expose of city corruption.
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Former full-time journalist, now dean at a Chicago university and devoted husband of astronomer Minna, Corde spends this December in Bucharest—where Minna's beloved mother Valeria (a government Health Dept. official who fell out of favor) is dying in a state hospital.
After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago.
To the familiar Bellow magic and mastery, The Dean's December adds a new sense of urgency, of topicality, and an almost thriller-like tension.
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Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of mounting problems left behind in Chicago.
The Dean's December. Saul Bellow. Penguin, 1998 - Fiction - 312 pages. Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest...
