Dec 30, 2009

The Bellarosa Connection | The Bellarosa Connection

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Author: Saul Bellow
First Published: 1989
Type of Work: Novella
Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1980’s
Setting: New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Jerusalem
Principal Characters: The Unnamed Narrator, Harry Fonstein, Sorella Fonstein, Billy Rose
Genres: Social realism
Subjects: 1950’s
Locales: New York

This novella by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow is a minor contribution to a series of distinguished works in which he has investigated the spiritual malaise of twentieth century America. Humorous, at times stylistically exuberant, The Bellarosa Connection is Bellow’s fifteenth book. It takes the form of the first-person remembrance of Harry and Sorella Fonstein, acquaintances of the unnamed narrator through his stepmother. (Harry Fonstein is a nephew of the stepmother, whom the narrator calls “Aunt Mildred.”) A Polish Jew, Fonstein lost all of his family during the Nazi...

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The Bellarosa Connection | The Bellarosa Connection

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