SOURCE: Campbell, Don G. Review of Red Wolf, Red Wolf, by W. P. Kinsella. Los Angeles Times Book Review (18 November 1990): 6.

In the following review, Campbell offers a positive assessment of Red Wolf, Red Wolf.

While W. P. Kinsella has written 15 books and more than 200 short stories, he is undoubtedly best known for his prize-winning novel, Shoeless Joe, which, in turn, became the mystic movie, Field of Dreams. In Red Wolf, Red Wolf, Kinsella's collection of 13 short stories, first published in Canada in 1987, we have a well-balanced cross section of the author's skills in shaping believable people moving against ordinary backgrounds and behaving sometimes self-destructively, sometimes foolishly, but always 100٪ believably. Kinsella's protagonists aren't always likable and certainly can be as foolish as the best of us. In “Evangeline's Mother,” Henry Vold, an otherwise promising savings-and-loan executive plays the fool's role to perfection when he scuttles both his marriage and...