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...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...
When several publishing houses reject a manuscript by a Nobel Prize-winner like Saul Bellow, it's a sure sign that something is wrong. But I was optimistic as I began reading his new novella A Theft, convinced that I would discover an overlooked masterpiece. Unfortunately, all those publishing houses were not wrong...
...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...
...THEFT by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate offers an original novella in paperback, a vivid new fiction in which the familiar Bellow hero has become a heroine...