A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
– William A. Henry III
Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
– William A. Henry III
Inge did not transform his characters: They end where they began. But he understood them. In their interplay was genuine life, often blunted but ever resilient.
– William A. Henry III
The title refers to the wife's calling for a lost puppy, yet it is clear that hers is in truth a cri de cur for the unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up.