*WHEN THE OWL CRIES*
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What reviewers had to say about _When the Owl Cries_:
"As you turn the pages you ask, what next? That is the immemorial
appeal of the thriller. But what gives the story stature as a work of
creative art is that Mr. Bartlett has been at pains to populate it with
believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns."
Charles Poore, _N.Y. Times_
"The book charms with its expert knowledge of place and people." Paul
Engle, _Chicago Tribune_
"Vivid, impressive, highly pictorial. What makes it a pleasure to read
is its marvelous vignettes of Mexican ways of life." Lon Tinkle,
_Dallas News_
"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_
"Articulate ... believable ... the book charms with its expert knowledge
of place and people..." _Chicago Tribune_
"A skillfully written novel, interwoven with color and excitement..."
_New Bedford Standard_
"A suspenseful story..." _The Diplomat_
"A story of change, love, violence and corruption that moves fast..."
_Sacramento Bee_
"One of the high ranking novels of the year ... between realism and
poetry ... brilliant, colorful and smooth." _Worcester Telegram_
"A penetrating novel, with wonderful scenes and rich understanding..."
_Long Beach Press_
"A novel of exploitation and retribution..." _London Free Press_
"A novel of haunting significance..." _Bay St. Louis News_
"A capably written novel about a colorful land and an exciting era..."
_Los Angeles Mirror_
"Filled with impressive details of landscape and Mexican life ... all
presented with an artist's eye..." _Richmond News Leader_