"Janet R. Maslin" is an United States/American journalist, best known as a film critic/film and literary criticism/literary critic for The New York Times. She served as the Times' film critic from 1977 to 1999.

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I think they're silly in a way that's absolutely undemanding.

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She is lawyer enough to have changed all but one name (her husband's) in the part of the book devoted to criminal abandon.

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[Published this month, the novel has been hailed as a remarkable debut, both for its gripping subject and for what Publishers Weekly called its] extraordinarily original voice. ... Its nuances may not be subtle, but its nobility is impossible to miss.

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