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 | Seeking Life Whole
ISBN# 9780838641996
Reviewed by: Laura Winters, College of St. Elizabeth, NJ
Western American Literature 45.3 |
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This book possesses a companionable style, a seriousness of purpose, a superb use of Cather Archive materials at the Drew University Library in Madison, New Jersey, and represents a genuine contribution to Cather Studies. In addition to offering a rich vein of new research for all of us to mine and respond to, this volume is also a fascinating and powerful meditation on friendship, beauty, the spiritual quest, the tensions between western and Eastern understandings of transcendence and Oneness, the artistic process, the mysterious relation between life and art, the joys and challenges of living in exile, as well as the complexities of marriage and child-rearing. It, of course, helps us read the whole body of Cather's fiction more fully while it beautifully reveals a significant chapter in Cather's life -- her decades-long friendship with the artists Earl and Achsah Brewster, and the profound impact of her friendship with the Brewsters on her fiction.
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