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The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20051201
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The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather. Majrilee Lindemann, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$65.00). xx + 229 pages. ISBN 0.-521-82110-X. To the editor, Willa Cather remains one of the United States' greatest writers, in part because of her 'limpid prose'. For many Willa Cather's prose centres on traditional American values of hard work and individualisms and avoids social problems. This approach meant for others that she was an 'escapist'. This collection of thirteen essays see her as 'an acute observer of American life'. The first nine essays look ...

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