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As his final novel, published when he was 85, Ravelstein is certainly not one of Bellow's best, but still worth reading IMHO. I could never read Jane Austen for pleasure, but as a student or teacher have had to read several of her novels. Perhaps a university tutor of mine got it right when he complained that the biggest event in one of her novels (I've forgotten which one) is where someone falls from a four-foot wall! As for her prissiness, he said that after reading Austen, he felt like "taking a bath in Rabelais". In roughly the same period as Austen, my man is Fielding. Joseph Andrews is a favourite.

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Track 5: "Midgets". I knew it as a Basie orchestra feature for Joe Newman and Frank Wess, but here it's a quintet and I guess it's not the same hornmen either. Track 6: Did I hear Clark Terry there? Track 7: "Alone Together"

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That's getting me tracks 1-3, but not the others.

I'm not finding any BFT after 232.

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I feel that Phil's post-1958 work needs promoting, great as it is. 🙂