Have never listened to this before, have read it several times- excellent narrator! Still a favorite.

What a wonderful story so beautifully read. This is a picture of a time that is lost to the 21st C person/reader so to experience it through Willa Cather’s eloquent language is a delight. I am sure to be listening to this again.

After I got the novel because our book club was going to discuss it, I learned that the Western Writers of America listed it as one of the best western novels of the 20th century. The narrator does an excellent job. The writing style makes the book an easy read. I enjoyed the novel because my wife and I had done a road trip through Taos, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque a few years ago, and I had been to many places traveled by the priests in the book. The novel took me right back to those places, with vivid description. Also, having visited Kit Carson's home, I enjoyed how Cather wove the scout into the novel. While it is recognized as a novel, the book is very episodic. Experiencing it is almost like watching a TV mini series rather than a story told through a novel. That did put me off at first, but the structure makes sense considering this is the story of the lives of two priests, friends from their youth, bringing their religion of Catholicism to New Mexico and the west. Although not a Catholic myself, I enjoyed the book, as a historical novel, of an interesting time in our country.

Really good book and good vioce!!! Great match!!! But it's a little bit difficult to understand to non-native English speakers.