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Autumn 1959 • Vol. XXI No. 4 • Book Reviews |

Henderson’s Bellow

By Richard G. Stern

Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow. Viking. $4.50.

 

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A Perverse Fiction

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By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens. Harcourt. $5.00.The form of James Cozzens’ latest novel is that of The Ambassadors: the book is organized around a central consciousness, an intelligent, […]

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