SOURCE: “Immigrant Families, at Home and Yet Alienated,” in The New York Times, March 23, 1993.
In the following review, Kakutani offers a mixed assessment of Poet and Dancer, praising Jhabvala's ability to write with “fluency and poise” but noting a vague dissatisfaction in the “predictable” ending.
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