**Book Club!**

RS Book Club will now be held every other month, beginning with our next meeting on Thursday, February 25th, at 7pm at Merrily Seely's home.

We'll be discussing Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. 

 

"Willa Cather believed that Death Comes for the Archbishop was her best novel.  It was a great critical and commercial success from the moment it was published in 1927.  Loosely episodic in structure, the book is concerned with the literal and spiritual journey of two cultivated French priests who come to the American Southwest as missionaries in the mid-1800s.  The large gallery of characters includes Kit Carson, Indians, Mexicans, pious and profligate priests, rich ranchers, murderers, and battered wives.  It is based on the true story of Father Lamy and Father Machebeuf, who were involved with the development of New Mexico after it became part of the United States.  The book is the most stylistically innovative of Cather's novels.  It can be read for the simple pleasure of its stories, but it is also boldly experimental, making much use of allegory, symbolism, and allusions.  It is a prime example of twentieth-century modernism."