Critical Response
In 1966, the CBC called Beautiful Losers "one of the most radical and extraordinary works of fiction ever published in Canada," and quoted a critic from the Boston Globe who positively compared the work with the fiction of James Joyce. However, they also quote from a negative review in which the critic Robert Fulford called Beautiful Losers "the most revolting book ever written in Canada."
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