SOURCE: "What Little Boys Are Made Of," in The Observer Review, March 26, 1995, p. 17.
In the following predominantly negative review, Ratcliffe discusses some of the "bad writing" that is present in The Information, noting that while parts of the tale are sincere and "diversionary," much of the novel is "self-laceratingly autobiographical."
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