SOURCE: Review of The Age of Miracles, by Ellen Gilchrist. Los Angeles Times Book Review (30 July 1995): 6.

In the following positive review, Reynolds praises the humorous and entertaining characters portrayed in the stories of The Age of Miracles.

Many of the characters in these stories [The Age of Miracles] speak so quickly and candidly, seem so robust and healthy that they look back over their shoulders at the panting, slightly down-at-the-heels, mired-in-doubt reader now and again and call out “Get the picture?” Rhoda Manning, magazine writer, appears in several of the stories. She lives on Xanax and Evian and Donna Karan. Marriage, sex, divorce, solitude and company are all strangely equal in her life. “You figure it out,” she says in “A Statue of Aphrodite.” “Women and their desire to pleasure wealthy, self-made men. Think about it sometime if you get stuck in traffic in the rain.” “I was...