SOURCE: A review of House of the Sleeping Beauties, in The Saturday Review, New York, Vol. 52, No. 24, June 14, 1969, pp. 34-5.
Fitzsimmons is an American poet, educator, and critic with a special interest in Japanese culture. In the following highly favorable assessment of 'House of the Sleeping Beauties, he perceives a theme unifying the three stories in the volume: the "lasting and lucid vision of one aspect of human fear."
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