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entertaining gallery of madmen" (Kakutani).
Several critics take Rushdie to task for what they see as his sloppiness: Michiko Kakutani calls the novel a "loose, baggy monster" and "a decidedly disappointing performance" (the New York Times ). A.O.
Michiko Kakutani is dismissive in the New York Times , calling it a "glutinous hodgepodge of a book ...
the collection, at its considerable best, finds words for all the high and low notes of the raucous American anthem" (Jean Thompson, the New York Times Book Review ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani is less enamored than most, noting that a few of the stories "appear to be studies for [Jen's] earlier novels and stand somewhat shakily on their own."
Reviewers say that sections are on par with Invisible Man --especially the set pieces, dialogue, and riffs--but the novel as a whole doesn't match up: It "provides the reader with intimations of the grand vision animating Ellison's 40-year project, but it also feels disappointingly provisional and incomplete" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). ( Slate 's Jacob Weisberg found the novel more satisfying than most critics.