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...course. Perera slumps toward collegiate humor or into yuks too obviously derived from the new school of American-Jewish humor. His story line suffers the common affliction of the picaresque novel, midsection-al sag. But Perera always shows a lively talent and, if not yet a full-blown Bellow, his is a most promising puff...
...Sammler's Planet, Bellow...
...YORK UNIVERSITY Saul Bellow, D.Let., novelist. Your writing, now intensely sad, now colloquial and witty, now philosophical, beautifully ranges intellectual sophistication alongside common speech and experience...
Updike's elfin revenge includes a six-page bibliography of Bech's works as well as criticism of them. Travel Light, Bech's highly praised first novel, seems to carry strains of Kerouac's On the Road and Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March. Brother Pig, a novella, hints ever so slightly of Mailer's stylishly oblique and politically muddled Barbary Shore ("Puzzling Porky" is Updike's title for the TIME review). When the Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum...
...Deliverance, Dicket (3) 4. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (5) 5. Losing Battles, Welty (9) 6. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (4) 7. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (7) 8. The Godfather, Puzo (6) 9. The Anderson Tapes, Sanders 10. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow...