Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
“[Cather’s] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop’s cathedral. It is an art of ‘making,’ of clear depiction—of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up . . . Cather’s composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement.”
from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt
From the Hardcover edition.
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