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| Scholarly Review |
 | Seeking Life Whole
ISBN# 9780838641996
Reviewed by: Kari A. Ronning, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Great Plains Quarterly, Winter 2011 |
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Seeking Life Whole, eighth in Fairleigh Dickinson's series in Willa Cather, is a volume in two parts, with nine subdivisions, and excellent notes. Part 1 contains Lucy Marks's biographical account of the lives of the expatriate painters Achsah Barlow Brewster and her husband Earl H. Brewster, and David Porter's biographical and critical account of the previously unknown relationship between the Brewsters and Willa Cather. Their story is an important part of the history of the expatriate generation..., Porter (adds) considerably to our knowledge... He describes the similarities in the artistic principles of Cather and both Brewsters and the way these were embodied in her work, noting parallels but stopping short of calling them direct influences or prototypes. The combination of these sections gives a lively sense of the Zeitgeist shared by writers and painters alike.
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