SOURCE: Brandmark, Wendy. “Awful Daring.” New Statesman & Society 7, no. 292 (4 March 1994): 40.
In the following positive review of The Palace Thief, Brandmark maintains that what makes Canin “an exceptional writer rather than just a clever one is his combination of wit, compassion and moral seriousness.”
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