SOURCE: "Troubles I've Seen," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XLIV, No. 5, March 27, 1997, pp. 39-40.
Oates is a noted author, educator, and critic; her works include We Were the Mulvaneys. In the following review, she offers a favorable assessment of The Cattle Killing.
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