SOURCE: "Soupspoon's Blues," in The New York Times Book Review, August 13, 1995, pp. 11-12.
Giddins is an American critic and biographer. In the following review of RL's Dream, he applauds Mosley's "superb reportorial eye" and notes that "several episodes are as well tuned as anything he has written," but finds the book flawed by occasional lapses into sentimentality and burdened by excessive profundities from the main character.
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