SOURCE: Steinberg, Sybil. Review of Dream of the Wolf, by Scott Bradfield. Publishers Weekly 237, no. 39 (28 September 1990): 84.

In the following review, Steinberg criticizes Dream of the Wolf, commenting that Bradfield's writing is characterized by stock characters and thin narrative description, and that many of his stories are alienating to the reader.

“I don't think you can ever get to know me really well unless you understand I happen to be a very mind-oriented sort of person,” proclaims a character in one of 13 stories collected here [in Dream of the Wolf]. The life of the mind, a rather moribund life played out in Southern California, is the book's general province. And while the bizarre predicaments of characters suggest a wayward mission to rewrite Kafka, Bradfield (The History of Luminous Motion) is no Kafka: the idiosyncratic ratiocinations of his people don't indicate a serious contest between Man and Fate, and since...