SOURCE: "Gulp!" in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXIII, No. 20, December 18, 1986, pp. 58-60.
Edwards is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt, he faults Whirlwind for its lack of appeal and believability, lamenting that the novel "has nothing to do with any life I've ever heard of."
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