She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers * Observer * The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway -- Leon Edel Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic -- Helen Dunmore The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work -- A. S. Byatt In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness . . . Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page -- Marina Warner A tremendous, ranging story, economical and distilled as poetry, fast moving, rich and short. A mighty subject. A lovely book * JANE GARDAM of DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP * Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic * HELEN DUNMORE * In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness ... Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page * MARINA WARNER *
