... music as she describes the failures and triumphs of her main characters. Individual chapters could almost be read as prose-poems, each succinctly capturing a moment of being or one of life's lessons for the characters involved. Cather truly deserves her place as one of the 20th century's finest American authors. Archbishop is as much a must- read for the artistic aesthete, as it ... as its object "narrative" rather than "the novel" seems to me exactly appropriate to Cather's work. She was clearly fascinated with storytelling in all its aspects, and as her career developed, so did the fr...

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