SOURCE: “Dreams of Death,” in Times Literary Supplement, February 7, 1992, p. 18.

In the following review, Binyon offers unfavorable assessment of Flying to Love.

“Ten thousand dreams a night, a Dallas psychologist told me, when I dined with her and her black lover, are dreamt about Kennedy's assassination.” The journalistic flavour of the first sentence of Flying in to Love, with its fake numerical accuracy and hint of a prurient leer, sets the tone of the novel and also provides its form. It is to be a dream sequence about that day in November 1963, a series of random, disconnected, chronologically dislocated episodes, mingling past and present, real and fictional characters, including Lee Harvey Oswald. Lyndon Johnson and Sister Agnes, a pretty young history teacher at the Sacred Heart Convent in Dallas.

Interior monologue is the preferred mode of narration: Patrolman Tippit broods about his marital problems: Oswald contemplates life in...