“Somewhere, Mr. Warren loses his grip on his backwoods opportunities and becomes so absorbed in a number of other characters that what might have been a useful study of an irresponsible politician whose prototype whe have had melancholy occasion to observe in the flesh turns out to be a disappointment.”
The New Yorker
“The language of both men and women is coarse, blasphemous, and revolting—their actions would shame a pagan hottentot.”
Catholic World
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
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