They don’t say that about Idi Amin
Andrew O’Hagan: Bellow Whinges, 6 January 2011
Saul Bellow: Letters
edited by Benjamin Taylor.
Viking, 571 pp., $35, November 2010,978 0 670 02221 2 Show More
edited by Benjamin Taylor.
Viking, 571 pp., $35, November 2010,
“... their latest book. Only once, in this selection, does he not like a book: I Married a Communist by Philip Roth, though nothing happened as a result, and the correspondence fizzles out. He has a feeling for the rigours of old age and writes helpfully to the ill and bereaved. He was always affectionate and rather awestruck by the philosopher Owen Barfield, and ... ”