"Only rarely is an American writer gifted with the perception and sensitivity required to translate into English the intensity and sense of tragedy of the Latin races." Joe Knoefler, L.A. Times
"Mr. Bartlett has given us a powerful, unusual and haunting novel, filled with characters as real as the headlines in today's papers, who move towards the inevitability of defeat like figures in a Greek tragedy." Gwen, The Oxford Mail
"A beautifully atmospheric tale..." The Washington Post
"A dramatic, well-written symbol of transition..." San Jose Mercury
"A book of substance and depth, beautifully and poetically written..." Moberly Monitor
"Achieves a totality of effect that reminds one of Poe..." Wichita Falls Times
"If you like to feel the exotic made factual, here it is..." Saskatchewan Star
"A lively and richly picturesque chronicle of a Mexico that was..." Chicago Sun-Times
"An intense struggle heightened by personal involvement, written with understanding..." Los Angeles Examiner
"Bartlett has pinpointed the struggle between the old order and the new, between father and son..." Atlanta Journal