The dozen male actors swagger and bellow and carouse in various newsroom and cop roles.
With success came a stern commitment to writing that contributed to Mr Bellow's four divorces.
"Haul away, you rolling kings, heave away, heave away, " they bellow as they yank on the rope.
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It gave us Oprah, Michael Jordan, Nobel Prize winning author Saul Bellow -- and the great University of Chicago.
James Atlas salutes Saul Bellow's talent, but he has some doubts about the relentless mixture of concupiscence and creativity.
And there is still enough of August left for him to take a holiday, while his peers bellow on.
The grimness is alleviated by absurdist humour, grotesque situations and snappy rejoinders reminiscent of Saul Bellow or, rather, Woody Allen.
Predictably, their fans will bellow about how unfair the selection committee was.
He and Bellow shared a drink at the Pont Royal in Paris, but both men were shy and the encounter was awkward.
It is probably no surprise then that Mr Bellow's novels are notorious for his gallery of overbearing women, drawn ruthlessly from life.
Mr Bellow's writing slowed, but the spring of words never failed him.
Visitors will spend up to an hour observing the very vocal Magellanic penguins, which bellow and strut along the beach by the hundreds.
Strassler, a perfectionist, would periodically call his editor, Adam Bellow (son of Saul), and run down a list of dozens of items that needed discussing.
Mr Atlas has no doubt, however, of Mr Bellow's stature as a writer: his unique vitality of mind and language bursts out of every quotation.
That vigour was part of Mr Bellow's legacy, along with a delight in argument and a teeming passion for ideas and culture of all kinds.
Indeed, this judicious, admirable book partakes of Mr Bellow's own energy.
The manifold pleasures of Mr Bellow's energetic life, from the bustling immigrant neighbourhoods of Chicago to the glitterati of post-war New York, make for an engrossing read.
Mr Atlas makes it clear that the main character in the novels has always been Mr Bellow, each book a dispatch from his restless quest for self-knowledge and expression.
It's moving more and more new fans each day, taking in willing converts the way The Lone Bellow did on a recent two-night stand with Yoakam in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
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But Mr Bellow's energy, commitment and talent were indefatigable.
The Lone Bellow has been on something of a run since releasing its self-titled debut album in January, distinguishing itself from the banjo-toting crowd in Brooklyn with a big sound that's drawing a lot of attention.
To be splattered and distorted across the ether by the great Dvorak ( "Microsoft, the government and Karlgaard") is rather like being the subject of a one-eyed Picasso portrait (as Saul Bellow might have put it).
Though Mr Bellow is Canadian-born, the city of Chicago has always been a vital part of his inspiration, and his biographer captures the ebullience of life in an immigrant neighbourhood in the 1920s and 1930s, where the strains of survival were more than compensated by a bustling energy and sense of shared possibility.
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