"... an enormous achievement ... a spare beauty in all its baroque splendor". -- Peter Bush, translator of "The Gray Notebook", by Josep Pla, and the fiction and nonfiction of Juan Goytisolo

"... [a] startlingly original quest novel ..." -- Emily Leider, author of "Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino" and "Becoming Mae West"

"... visionary ... heartfelt and brimming with experiential moments." -- D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review

"... a beguiling and poignant book, haunted by history, capturing the long decline of America ..." -- Ernest Hilbert, author of "All of You on the Good Earth" and "Sixty Sonnets" and editor of "E-Verse Radio"

... beautiful and haunting ..." -- Anna Sears, author of "Exile"

If ever there was a time when readers are looking for explanations to life's mysteries, sordid events and shocks, it is now. Christopher Bernard, close observer of the Zeitgeist, answers with Voyage to a Phantom City, ... an adventure of "Indiana Jones" proportions." -- Joan Gelfand, author of "The Long Blue Room," and "The Dreamer's Guide to Cities and Streams"