Word: novella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BELLAROSA CONNECTION by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate's second appearance of the year in a paperback original, this absorbing novella once again retails the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America...
Saul Bellow created a lot of excitement last March when he allowed his novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...
...TURN OF THE SCREW (Showtime, debuting Aug. 12, 10 p.m. EDT). Amy Irving stars as the Victorian governess with a ghost problem in this new version of Henry James' famous novella. The hour-long drama launches Shelley Duvall's new series, Nightmare Classics...
...ASPERN PAPERS (PBS, June 9, 9 p.m. on most stations). First time on TV for Dominick Argento's opera based on the Henry James novella, in a production from the Dallas Opera...
...novella can be considered on two levels--but either way it falls short of what a reader would expect from Bellow. The book could have been a standard mystery story but it provides no real suspense. It also could have been an exercise in subtle symbolism, but it provides no real insights...