SOURCE: "In Ontario," in London Review of Books, February 7, 1991, pp. 22-3.
Shields is a Pulitzer-prize winning novelist, poet, and critic who has lived in and written about Canada. In the following review, she favorably reviews Friend of My Youth, calling it a book on which every page contains "particular satisfactions of prose that is supple, tart and spare."
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