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Second Thoughts on
Night Train
by Janis Freedman Bellow
reprinted by permission of
 THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
#4 May 1998: 25-29
(Editor's Note: Janis Freedman Bellow's essay "Second Thoughts
on Night Train" is essential reading--one of few essays that does justice to
the novel's humanity and complexity. I wish to thank Ms. Freedman Bellow and the editors
of The Republic of Letters* for permission to reprint her essay on The Martin
Amis Web--and editorial assistant Nicole Peeler for her assistance).
I have divided the essay into four parts:
   
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