SOURCE: "The Best Living English Novelist," in The New York Times Book Review, March 17, 1974, pp. 6-7.
In the following appreciative survey of Rhys's works, Alvarez maintains that the "purity of Miss Rhys's style and her ability to be at once deadly serious and offhand make her books peculiarly timeless. "
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