Testament of Yves Gundron

"Barton's first novel is inventive and not short on pleasures....But in the end, it's a relief to leave weird Mandragora. Too often, the novel punishes its characters for not resisting modernity strenuously enough--not sticking with unpaved roads and unharnessed horses. But it shouldn't be heartbreaking that the Mandragorans, with all the world before them, want complexity and consciousness and the chance to fall from grace like the rest of us. Who can blame them?"Barton, Emily is the author of 'Testament of Yves Gundron', published 2001 under ISBN 9780743411486 and ISBN 074341148X.