I thought this was incredible. The judiciously crafted narrator, able to stay so close to Wilhelm but not give up an ability to jump into other characters, felt effortless and freed up Bellow to describe the world and these characters with such emotional access. There are interactions here which I found riveting and the stakes were ordinary stakes, yet profoundly implicating. This is a slim novel with a great protagonist written with a set of razor sharp writing chops.