Willa Cather

Broschiertes Buch

A Lost Lady

Beschreibung

A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.

Autor

Born in 1873 to a family who had farmed in Virginia for generations, Willa Cather moved to her father's new ranch in Nebraska when she was eight. The raw frontier territories and the pioneer life of the Old West were to awaken her imagination and furnish the atmosphere for much of her later work. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather became a teacher and a journalist. In 1912 she abandoned journalism to write full time. Her first novel was Alexander's Bridge (1912) though she had already published a volume of poems and another of short stories. Her vivid novels cover a wide range: there are impassioned and thoughtful explorations of the ancient worlds of the Americas in The Professor's House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) as well as sympathetic portrayals of conflicting values, or of the demands of art. These, along with her evocations of the pioneering West, soon established her reputation as one of America's foremost writers. Willa Cather died in New York in 1947.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 140g
• ISBN-13: 9781844083732
• ISBN-10: 184408373X
• Artikelnr.: 21820534

Rezensionen

She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers Observer