More recently Margaret Moan Rowe
, writing on Spark for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, was harder to please. Though she called the book a satisfying first novel, she believed that the disembodied voices...
Literary responses
Muriel Spark
Commentator Frank Baldanza
called Robinsona sharp decline
qtd. in
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
15: 493
from The Comforters, and Margaret Moan Rowe
agreed. On the other hand, Velma Richmond
finds in it a zesty exuberance and confidence that suggest...
Literary responses
Muriel Spark
British Book News began to cool wirh this novel: this time her central character is scarcely a sufficiently plausible figure to dominate the story as the plot requires.