The Bellarosa Connection

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The Bellarosa Connection (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)

The Novel

One of Saul Bellow’s shorter works, The Bellarosa Connection tells the story of a wife’s persistence in gaining an interview with impresario Billy Rose, who was responsible—through his anonymous underground railroad—for saving from the Nazis a number of Jews, Harry Fonstein among them, by bringing them to America. The narrator, a distant relative of the Fonsteins, remembers being told Harry’s history.

Harry Fonstein has made his way to Italy in fleeing the Nazis, but in Rome, he is arrested and faces deportation to a concentration camp. A...

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• Saul Bellow (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Saul Bellow (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Saul Bellow (Short Fiction)
• Saul Bellow (Long Fiction)
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