“Neil Simon, Boffmeister,” in The National Observer, Vol. 10, No. 46, November 20, 1971, p. 24.
In the following essay, Ridley observes that in The Prisoner of Second Avenue Simon has moved from the cheerful innocence of his early comedies to a comedy painfully aware of distress and hopelessness.
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