Word: novella
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Goodbye, Columbus. This metropolitan New York "Graduate" was probably Radcliffe's biggest recruiter before "Love Story." Ali McGraw plays the ultimate bitch-goddess to Richard Benjamin's witty but unambitious librarian in the 1969 adaptation of the Philip Roth novella. First time on TV. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color...
...movie is at its best here, sweet and shrewd and funny), they settle down into suburbia. They have a boy named Robbie, bright and happy, who contracts a mysterious disease and dies before reaching adolescence. The marriage founders, breaks and is mended again. Based on the Peter DeVries novella Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie is a mixture of puns, wisecracks and tragedy. All this might have worked but in stead is disconcerting because the movie takes only certain very tentative risks...
...NOVEL proceeds into confusion along with Dawes, who can find no firm identity and becomes schizophrenic. But, the confusion of the third part is controlled, even if Dawes is not. The result definitely justifies the reading. Besides chronological disarray, a new element is introduced, chapters from Dawes's own novella in progress...
...book, which contains a novella and six stories, is in most ways a letdown. Leafstorm, the long work, is also about Macondo, but it is an early, earnest exercise in which three narrators-a boy, his mother and his grandfather-recall the old man's efforts to give a decent burial to an outcast whom the town wants to leave to the vultures...
...very good novella is crated like a cracked vase in this volume, padded between two undistinguished lesser fictions that serve only to give the book that solid $6.95 heft. The unfortunate excelsior stories, All My Bones and The Call, are summer-weight Southern gothic. in which the author follows the convention of this school by writing about the rural poor as if they were all dimwitted. The title work, Goat Songs, is something else. A series of erotic recollections links a man to his boyhood. The episodes are brief: a flicker of memory, a few moments of musing. Perceptions...