SOURCE: A review of The Cockatoos, in The New Republic, Vol. 172, No. 12, 1975, pp. 23-4.
In the following review, Avant maintains that the short story form “demands immediate rapport between artist and audience; and White, the most austere of modern novelists, isn't an intimate writer.”
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