The New Yorker found this novel beautifully presented and utterly convincing,though it complained of occasionally high-flown language.
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
292
Several individuals (or in Walker's words all my white women friends)
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
295
saw themselves in...
Literary responses
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Updike
again complained about RPJ
's refusal of sympathy to her characters. Robert Towers
went further: linking this with Jhabvala's gender and (British) nationality, he accused her of revelling in her characters' discomfiture and degradation...
