SOURCE: "A Sort of Anzac Peter Ibbetsen and Family," in The New York Times Book Review, May 3, 1970, p. 4.

Moynahan is an American educator, novelist, essayist, and critic. In the review of Intensive Care below, he criticizes Frame for not answering the many questions she raises in the novel.

Janet Frame is a New Zealand novelist and poet who is not well known in this country and whose eighth novel, Intensive Care, is unlikely to win her many new converts among the novel-reading public. The book is sprawling and invertebrate, overwritten at times in a vein of capricious prose-poetry and actual poetry, indifferent to problems of construction and coherence raised by its episodic, disjunctive plot, simplistic and even careless with respect to the moral issues the lives of its principal characters fitfully reflect. Although it is arranged in three parts and employs the services of five narrators, these compositional...