SOURCE: "Maverick in American Letters," in The New Republic, Vol. 170, January 19, 1974, pp. 23-4.
In the following review of The Last Carousel, Maloff faults Algren's overblown prose, his self-indulgence, and the repetitive nature of the stories in the volume.
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