From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. Soaked through and through with atmosphere. Byatt From the Hardcover edition., "A truly remarkable book. Cather's composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement."-from the Introduction by A. It is an art of 'making,' of clear depiction-of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification."-NEW YORK TIMES"The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us."-Rebecca West" descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop's cathedral.
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