Lucy Gayheart
of Willa Cather
Description
"Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughtsâthat and nothing more." In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of My Ăntonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series of crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art.At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affairâand Lucy's fatal estrangement from her originsâWilla Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date September 26th 1995
- First Publication 10/29/35
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679728887
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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