As much cannot be said for “Henderson the Rain King,” which is an unsuccessful experiment, noble in purpose but dismal in result. But rhapsodic, tedious and stupefying as “Augie” often was, it was also intermittently funny and spangled with examples of Mr. The first person by a narrator a trifle touched in the head. The comic extravaganza about the absurdities and trials of modern life was also written in Saul Bellow is a talented and ambitious writer best known for his “The Adventures of Augie March,” which was published six years ago. He is the hero and narrator of “Henderson the Rain King,” a peculiar, prolix Henderson was a champion sufferer, a fabulously strong giant of a man with a sentimental heart and no common sense whatever. Raising pigs, learning to play the violin, doing hard physical labor on his estate near Danbury-nothing could soothe his tedium Henderson was “moody, rough, tyrannical and probably His incessant follies, his alcoholism (he was often drunk before lunch) and his mordant discontent were more than he could bear. EUGENE HENDERSON, a multimillionaire by trade and a pathetic, swaggering clown by nature, reached an imaginary point of no return when he wasĥ5 years old and felt that he had to go to Africa. FebruBooks of the Times By ORVILLE PRESCOTT Henderson the Rain King By Saul Bellow
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