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Willa Cather's fiction cannot be understood separate from her treatment of erotic reality between human beings of the same sex, a fact of which Anders and other recent Cather critics are fully aware. This outstanding contribution to Cather criticism is exceptionally well written, nothing less than a delight to read. Anders's treatment of My Antonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop is acutely analytic, skillfully reflecting--and scrupulously crediting--other Cather critics, especially Susan Rosowski, to whom Anders is unabashedly close in his view of Cather. The study also convincingly presents Cather in her historical context, with the net impact that this short study is in the end greater than most longer studies of Cather's fiction. Though readers may be annoyed by Anders's intense and uncontrolled repetition of the term "homosexual," a repetition that weakens his control of the argument, Anders does much to compensate for this weakness and produces a sensitive and insightful study. Highly recommended for college and university libraries at all levels. W. J. Martz; Ripon College