SOURCE: "Love Birds of Prey," in The New Yorker, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, March 11, 1967, pp. 184-86, 89-91

In the following review of The Pilgrim Hawk, Moss discusses the relationships between characters in the novella, focusing on the theme of freedom versus captivity.

Glenway Wescott's short novel, The Pilgrim Hawk, has come out in a new edition, twenty-six years after it first appeared. Subtitled "A Love Story," it is told in the first person by a narrator named Tower. Mr. Wescott's use of the first person is more than just one way of telling a story. What passes for a more or less objective account of events—more or less because Tower keeps questioning his own observations—boomerangs, and the tale leads us back to the teller. We believe in him as a character but we become suspicious of his point of view. He reveals more than he knows, and...