SOURCE: "Fathers, Daughters and Hoodlums," in The New York Times Book Review, April 19, 1987, pp. 1, 29-30.
Leavitt is an American novelist and short story writer. In the review below, he asserts that the "baroque richness of Ms. McDermott's sentences, the intellectual complexity of her moral vision, and the explicit emotion of her voice" distinguish That Night from other novels treating similar themes and incorporating suburban settings.
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