SOURCE: A review of The Field of Vision, in Partisan Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, Winter, 1957, pp. 142-43.

In the following excerpt, Flint dismisses The Field of Vision as overblown and empty.

Wright Morris, says John W. Aldridge, is “the most important novelist of the American middle generation” and The Field of Vision “brilliantly climaxes his most creative period. It is a work of permanent significance. …” Well, leave us face it, as the TV comics say. It just ain't so. Morris handles the romantic figures of tabloid legend and the mythical Reader's Digest-reading average man with a star-struck wonder that's just a wee bit hollow and fake. His real gift, on the basis of a chapter called “Scanlon,” seems to be for action narrative and hallucinated horror. I don't say he cannot be amiable, nor that he doesn't deserve to make a comfortable living as a writer. But...