+ Ath p572 Jl 4 ’19 180w
“The story is told with a quiet restraint, with no attempt to pile up horrors, but with a relentless insistence on the central tragedy. Very fine work with a limited appeal.”
+ Booklist 16:281 My ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:78 Mr ’20 580w
“It is simply and vividly told. It reads not like fiction but like fact, which perhaps it is.”
+ Ind 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“He evidently and perhaps rightly considered that to draw any ultimate consequences from his story in the world of conduct would have diminished its inherent force. That force is very great.”
+ Nation 110:115 Ja 24 ’20 500w
“Very simply, very quietly and naturally, the author builds up the structure of events, some of them apparently trivial at the time, but destined later to become of dreadful portent, which at the last crushes and breaks Harry’s nerve. The logic of it all is unassailable and perfectly convincing.”