Literary Significance and Reception
Robert McCrum states "It was the American literary press that saluted Daniel Martin; the English critics who murdered it." Writing in The New York Times William H. Pritchard opined "This new, long, ambitious novel must be judged best piece of work to date and is a masterly fictional creation, dense with fact."
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