SOURCE: "Sunset Over Miami," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 3, 1995, pp. 1, 8.
[Howard is American novelist, essayist, critic, and autobiographer whose works include the novels Expensive Habits (1986) and Natural History (1992). In the following highly positive review of Mrs. Ted Bliss, she compares Elkin to Mark Twain and Herman Melville, describing him as "an American writer of the first rank."]
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