Take the following as truth: The New York Times Book Review declares it one of the year's ten best books, and Joyce Carol Oates, writing in The New Yorker (for which Updike often writes), calls it the most inventive of his myriad fiction.
Then the following statement: "It is one of the year's ten best books according to the New York Times Books Review. " is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: True