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The Bellarosa Connection is a 1989 novella by the American author Saul Bellow. The book takes the form of an ongoing dialogue between the Fonstein family about the impact of the Holocaust. This is an especially significant story as it represents, along with Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow's most significant commentary on the Holocaust. In the book, the Bellarosa Connection signifies Billy Rose's Madison Square Garden benefit for the Jews of Europe on...

In the first critical study to deal with all of Bellow's fictional works to date, Fuchs gives a unique look at the novelist's imagination at work. Granted sole permission to quote from all of Bellow's unpublished manuscripts and letters, Fuchs studies the stages of Bellow's work, the stages that altered the essential nature of characters and scenes. Analyzing Bellow's literary and cultural milieus, he elucidates his complete vision and shows how this...

Discusses writers such as Poul Anderson, Brian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Algis Budrys, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Thomas Disch, Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Randall Garrett, Robert A. Heinlein, Zenna Henderson, Frank Herbert, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Ursula...

An introduction to the joys and challenges of Malamud's fiction. Contains analyses of the writer's six novels--one of which brought him the Pulitzer Prize--including Dubin's Lives and of selected short stories.

Him with his foot in his mouth--What kind of day did you have?--Zetland: by a character witness--A silver dish-Cousins.

The author divides this collection of sixteen stories into five sections. The first and second, embracing ten stories, are acute recollections of youthful experiences. Two stories about the Civil War make up the next section. Four stories examine the inevitably changing relationships between men and women. The concluding section, a long story, is an adult recollection of an earlier time, and like the other stories, it reveals a sensiblility that reflects...