Sean French (review date 1988)
SOURCE: French, Sean. “Earthly Powers.” New Statesman and Society 1, no. 21 (28 October 1988): 33-34.
[In the following review, French asserts that The Death of Methuselah, and Other Stories is “a wonderful collection of stories” by “one of the great tale-tellers of this century.”]
“The Smuggler,” one of the stories in this collection, is little more than an anecdote, just over seven pages long. An autograph-hunter comes to see Singer in his Broadway apartment. Singer asks why he needs...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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