SOURCE: “Crusades Against Hoopla and Pain,” in Critical Essays on Patrick White, edited by Peter Wolfe, G. K. Hall & Co., 1990, pp. 65-7.
In the following review, originally published in Antipodes: A Journal of Australian Literature in 1988, Bliss maintains that the stories in Three Uneasy Pieces “lack the convincing density and scope of the major novels and even of much of White's short fiction.”
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