SOURCE: "Deadly Chain of Events," in New York Times Book Review, March 26, 1967, pp. 24-5.
In the following review of Casualties of Peace, Dienstag asserts that O'Brien's "old-fashioned" and clichéd structuring of her novel destroys the effectiveness of her "extraordinary style."
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