SOURCE: “Nobelity Without Authenticity,” in The National Observer, Vol. 14, No. 4, January 25, 1975, p. 21.
In the following negative assessment of White's fiction, Frank deems White's short stories “disappointing,” arguing that while they exhibit a “verbal richness” and “psychological acumen,” they feature characters who never seem real and plots that “verge on melodrama.”
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