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(Innis) balanced yet stirring description of the bullfight becomes the subtext for his sensitive depiction of the life of a dedicated artist. Publishers Weekly Amusing portrait of the artist as an earnest schlemiel, leavened with an ironic, Hemingwayesque admiration of its south-of-the-boarder setting...brilliantly executed. Kirkus Reviews Finely drawn with a cunning display of detail and internal emotional conflicts, this bittersweet tale...reveals much of the inner nature of human courage, love and ambition. The Dallas Morning News