SOURCE: "Twilight of a Baleboosteh," in The New York Times Book Review, September 17, 1995, p. 7.
[Goodman is an American journalist and critic who frequently writes on television for The New York Times. In the following review of Mrs. Ted Bliss, he argues that, though it is not Elkin's best work, it is characteristically intelligent and funny and parts of it will "stay with you after you've given up on the plot."]
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