For it takes the story of whoredom and places it in a religious context, so that we are enabled to look on Israel (and ourselves) as a faithless wife forgiven by the Lord. (religion-online.org)
The novel's patriotic rejection of commercial whoredom remains thrilling. (firstthings.com)
It neither glamorizes nor demonizes truck - stop whoredom; it merely depicts it, with little of the internal strife that ought to accompany it. (rottentomatoes.com)