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- ↑ Childers, Doug. (September 13, 2009). "Fiction review: In the Valley of the Kings". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012.
- ↑ Giraldi, William. (September 13, 2009). "The Unnameable". The New York Times Sunday Book Review. p. BR27.
“In the Valley of the Kings,” faithful in myriad ways to Maugham’s “life in the raw,” will take its rightful place beside those works of genius — fiction, philosophy, theology — unafraid of axing into our iced hearts. These stories will endure for as long as our hurt kind remains to require their truth.
- ↑ Mansbach, Adam. (September 13, 2009). "'In the Valley of the Kings' by Terrence Holt". The Los Angeles Times.
The seven stories and one novella that constitute "In the Valley of the Kings" take the entire solar system for their canvas.
