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Willa Cather is a prolific female writer having written non-fiction, 11 or so novels, essays and short stories. She is famous for her Great Plains Trilogy (of which I have read O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for her work, One of Ours.
This book, written in 1927, covers the career of Father Jean Marie Latour. He has been re-assigned to the new diocese of Santa Fe. New because this land was annexed to the United States after the Mexican- American War. The land is bea ...more
This book, written in 1927, covers the career of Father Jean Marie Latour. He has been re-assigned to the new diocese of Santa Fe. New because this land was annexed to the United States after the Mexican- American War. The land is bea ...more
Okay … Intellectually I can appreciate Cather’s writing. The last chapter, in particular, is very fine. I love the way she is able to convey a sense of time and place … and she speaks of a landscape that is dear to me.
Now, I know this book was written in 1927, and I know that the setting is in the New Mexico territory from about mid 1850s to 1888, but I just cannot stomach the superior European attitude of this book and its main characters.
The educated are all French Jesuits, Spaniards or the ...more
Now, I know this book was written in 1927, and I know that the setting is in the New Mexico territory from about mid 1850s to 1888, but I just cannot stomach the superior European attitude of this book and its main characters.
The educated are all French Jesuits, Spaniards or the ...more
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