[1] Nasrullah Mambrol writes that "The motif of marital unhappiness recurs in the collection as a whole.

The husbands in the stories fear intimacy and invite betrayal through their inability to connect...

In Contemporary Authors (V.122) "more than one critic remarked that some of the tales seemed too studied and even uncompelling."

Many of his works, especially short stories, leave the reader with many unanswered questions.

One critic writes, "A list of themes reads like a microcosm of the Sunday morning newspapers: infidelity to partner (three), sexual traumas (two), incest (one), age (three), suspected bestiality (one), murder and mayhem (one).