SOURCE: A review of True Love, in West Coast Review of Books, Vol. 9, No. 1, January, 1983, p. 32.

In the following negative review, Rochmis criticizes Gold for failing to bring to life the characters and situations in True Love.

As an avid follower of those “personal” ads in various rather prestigious publications, I've often thought that there's marvelous fodder in the words, behind the words and between the lines of those ads. Gold, in his current novel [True Love], offers a demi-hero whose first name is Watkins, a professor at a demi-prominent university, who is coming out of an adulterous love affair with Bethany, wife of a dentist. It's her choice, the “coming out” and in order to soften the blow, she puts an ad into one of those demi-prestigious publications in Wat's behalf. Then she receives some answers, rates and sorts them so that he will pursue the first...