A literate soap opera, ["Small Town"] tells of middle-aged world-famous journalist, Ben Winslow, who wants to launder the gray years through a return to and possible renewal in his hometown. Life, like the laundry, never comes out sparkling-pure; but Ben, revolving in a continuous cycle of lechery and greed, a nefarious jealous brother, corrupt country-club and corporation politics, emerges clean. The powerful bleaching agent: Love….

["Small Town" is] clean (no smutty sex scenes) and, rare bird, a great love story of the over thirty. And it's dishonest. A cheap-dyed, slick distortion of reality: the apparent championing of traditional moral values doesn't hide the ring-around-the-collar. And the author's friends, puffing the work, titillate the potential reader by calling it "engrossing autobiography" and "personal history."

Eileen Kennedy, in a review of "Small Town," in Best Sellers, Vol. 38, No. 11, February, 1979, p. 343.