To a greater degree than even he would perhaps admit, the content and technique of Kiely's fiction are dictated by a voice out of the past….
For more than thirty years Kiely has stood with one foot in the past and the other in the present, mingling joys and disappointments of the two worlds, and, so postured, he has managed to create a fiction that is more than credible; it is convincing. (p. 24)
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