Smiley, Jane - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Allen, Brooke. “On Campus among the Sacred Cows.” Wall Street Journal 225, No. 61 (29 March 1995): A10.

Points out several faults in Smiley's Moo and asserts that the novel “is at best a pleasant read.”

Bernays, Anne. “Toward More Perfect Unions.” New York Times Book Review 92 (6 September 1987): 12.

Lauds the novella and stories in Smiley's The Age of Grief.

Dodd, Susan. “The Sorrows of Bleeding Kansas.” Washington Post Book World 28, No. 15 (12 April 1998): 5.

Dodd asserts that Smiley's The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton has too much reflection and speech-making.

Eder, Richard. “Moo U.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (2 April 1995): 3, 8.

Discusses Smiley's use of satire in Moo.

Fuller, Edmund. Review of A Thousand Acres. Sewanee Review 101, No. 2 (Spring...

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