SOURCE: “Sold South,” in Times Literary Supplement, September 25, 1998, p. 22.
Oates is the author of several novels, including Man Crazy. In the following review, she asserts that while there are some well-written individual scenes in Smiley's The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, the novel does not work as a whole.
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