SOURCE: A review of House of the Sleeping Beauties, in Japan Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, July-September, 1971, pp. 351-54.
In the following excerpt, Brock is harshly critical of the pieces in House of the Sleeping Beauties; he finds the title story, for example, "so dull that it requires positive effort to struggle through its sargasso sea of lifeless anatomical detail, to read page after page of its repetitive variations on a basically obnoxious theme. "
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