The Shawl | Critical Overview
Both the story "The Shawl'' and the later collection by the same name were very well received by critics. In a September 10,1989, article in The New York Times Book Review, Francine Prose finds that Ozick "pulls off the rare trick of making art out of what we would rather not see." Barbara Hoffert, reviewing the story for the August, 1989, Library Journal, praises the work as "a subtle yet morally uncompromising tale that many will regard as a small gem." Reviewer Irving Halperin, writing of the collection in the December 15, 1989, issue of Commonweal, states that...
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