SOURCE: "The Terrorist and the Lady," in New York Times Book Review, June 26, 1994, p. 7.
The following is L'Heureux's generally laudatory review of House of Splendid Isolation, in which he notes some faults in the novel but asserts that O'Brien's "attempt nonetheless merits praise."
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