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The Bellarosa Connection, by Saul Bellow (Penguin, 102 pp., $6.95)

Some of Saul Bellow’s recent fiction has not fared so well with the critics. The Dean’s December was treated by some with substantial reserve, and the recent The~Theft had a mixed reception; opinion was all over the place. Some went so far as to mutter that Bellow, now eighty-five, might just be getting old.

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The Bellarosa Connection, by Saul Bellow (Penguin, 102 pp., $6.95)

Some of Saul Bellow’s recent fiction has not fared so well with the critics. The Dean’s December was treated by some with substantial reserve, and the recent The~Theft had a mixed reception; opinion was all over the place. Some went so far as to mutter that Bellow, now eighty-five, might just be getting old.