Her novel fictionalizes the lives of French Catholic missionary priests (John Baptist Lamy
and Joseph Machebeuf
, who in the novel are Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant
) working in the...
Reception
Willa Cather
Michael Williams
in The Commonweal called this book a wonderful demonstration of the artist's power, in that Cather had steeped her story in Roman Catholic
spirituality as no Catholic American writer could have done.
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
