SOURCE: A review of King of the Mountain, in Western Humanities Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1958, p. 193.

In the following review, Eble provides a mixed evaluation of King of the Mountain.

"I shall never finish a symphony," Brahms wrote. "You have no idea how it feels to hear behind you the tramp of a giant like Beethoven." Such a candid admission applies to all artists whose creativity is shaped not only by their own hands but by the hands of one or more of their predecessors. For American short story writers, the tramp of the giant has likely as not been that of Ernest Hemingway. Since Hemingway, one might say, it has been impossible for a young writer to work within a range of style and subject matter which has been too clearly marked by the hand of the master. In Mr. Garrett's first story in this collection, "The Rivals...