Penguin Books

The Dean's December - Saul Bellow

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.Corde is troubled: at home the centre is not holding firm, in Eastern Europe authority is cruel and dehumanizing.

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