num_pages: 112
description: The Nobel Prize and National Book Award-winning novelist introduces Harry Trellman, an aging businessman and lifelong outsider whose forty years of longing for an interior decorator is fulfilled, thanks to a billionaire friend. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Actual : A Novella
titlecomplete: The Actual : A Novella
characters: Amy Wustrin, Jay Wustrin, Madge Heisinger, Sigmund Adletsky, Harry Trellman, Bodo Heisinger, Dame Siggy
genres: Fiction, American, Jewish, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels, 20th Century, Novella, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1598
places: Chicago, Illinois
publisher: Penguin Books