Title: preaching to the choir
Review: Irving here waxes righteous over womens' right to choose-- a worthy enough cause, but, get serious, how many readers of fiction need to be convinced? This book, like pretty much everything since GARP, is overwritten, cumbersome, panders to the kleenex-toting audienceship, and it lacks almost entirely the vital, exciting, effervescent imaginative wildness that blazed through GARP, appeared in, oh, 50% of HOTEL NH, and has since been AWOL in Irving's writing. Once again, popularity and wide readership diverge from lasting literary value, with Irving and his ardent devotees taking the road more traveled by.
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