Scoppettone's "Trying Hard to Hear You" … was a sensitive, well-written novel about young male homosexuals. ["Happy Endings Are All Alike"], though, seems based on ventriloquist's dummies, mouthing the author's unoriginal opinions about sexism, intolerance and what-not. It's a pity that Scoppettone doesn't do justice to a vital subject.

A review of "Happy Endings Are All Alike," in Publishers Weekly (reprinted from the July 24, 1978 issue of Publishers Weekly, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company; copyright © 1978 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 214, No. 4, July 24, 1978, p. 100.