num_pages: 264
description: Bellow's second novel charts the descent into paranoia of Asa Leventhal, sub-editor of a trade magazine. With his wife away visiting her mother, Asa is alone, but not for long. His sister-in-law summons him to Staten Island to help with his sick nephew. Other demands mount, and readers witness a man losing control.
language: English
title: The Victim
titlecomplete: The Victim
characters: Asa Leventhal
genres: The United States Of America, 20th Century, Novels, Literature, Nobel Prize, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, American
ratings_count: 2113
publisher: Penguin Books