John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and scholar. He spent much of his career at the University of Minnesota. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1964 for 77 Dream Songs and was the recipient of the National Book Award for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. He is the author of several books of poetry and the biography Stephen Crane. Berryman died in 1972 after jumping to his death from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis.
Saul Bellow (1915-2005) was an award-winning author whose works include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, and Humboldt's Gifts. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
"Recovery is a brilliantly written, masterful portrayal of man's
battle with himself for survival."--Chicago Sun-Times"What
distinguishes Recovery from many fine and powerful fictions about
alcoholism are the steps it takes into allegory and art."--Los
Angeles Times"The powerful statement of a man who was there and
never came back."--Kirkus Reviews "But if Recovery is a fragment,
it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely
comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems."--The
Independent"Page after page, it displays humiliations and defeats.
His novel, while written in prose, has the effect of a poem about
the desolation of total selfpunishment. Sometimes, not even God and
AA, acting in concert, can help with that."--National Post
"What he needed for his art had been supplied by his own person, by
his mind, his wit."
--Saul Bellow, from the Foreword
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