SOURCE: “Memories Are Made of This,” in London Review of Books, December 16, 1993, pp. 22–3.
In reviewing King's Yesterday Came Suddenly alongside Giles Gordon's Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? and William Trevor's Excursions in the Real World, Beer concludes that King's “detached” prose style serves Yesterday Came Suddenly well.
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