SOURCE: "Saved from Drowning," in New York Times Book Review, May 25. 1997, p. 11.
In the following review, Mantel offers a favorable assessment of Down by the River, but faults O'Brien for what she perceives as overly pedantic, elaborate prose and a tendency to exhaustively reiterate issues.
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