Rotten Reviews: Two for John Gardner

“Rotten Reviews: The Wreckage of Agathon

’”Wreckage’ is appropriate…more hysterical than historical.’

Library Journal

Rotten Reviews: October Light

‘Within this great welter of word, symbols, and gassy speechifying and half-hatched allegory there was once, I suspect, a good lean novel, but I can’t find it….’

Peter Prescott, Newsweek”

Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.