The Rockpile | Critical Overview
‘‘The Rockpile’’ was first published in Going to Meet the Man (1965), a short-story collection that has received mixed reviews. In 1965, in the Saturday Review, Daniel Stern praised the collection, calling the short stories "closer in spirit, tone, and achievement to his best critical work than it is to his 'sensational' fiction. These are stories beautifully made to frame genuine experience in a lyrical language.’’ On the other hand, in his 1965 New Republic review, Joseph Featherstone says that the collection is "problematic'' and notes, "There are no...
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