SOURCE: "Survival of the Cruelest," in The New Republic, Vol. 209, No. 14, October 4, 1993, pp. 43-5.
In the following review of The Road to Wellville, Seligman surveys Boyle's career, contending that the novelist's "pyrotechnical exhibitionism" fails to conceal the "black-hearted fatalism" that ultimately renders all his works simplistic.
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