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Book SynopsisIn this haunting novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
My Ántonia and
Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series of crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction.
Trade ReviewThe unity of Miss Cather's design, the
clarity and distinction of this book, should put it beside her first great success,
My Antonia * Times Literary Supplement *
This new novel of Miss Cather's bids fair to
rank with her best selling titles ... It is a
vividly etched characterization, the story of a girl born to live up to the promise of her name * Kirkus Reviews *
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic -- Helen Dunmore
She is undoubtedly
one of the greatest American writers * Observer *
