Willa Cather

Broschiertes Buch

The Song of the Lark

Beschreibung

The second novel in Willa Catherâ s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. 'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice, defies her humble beginnings in Colorado and finds success far from her small hometown.

Autor

Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on to have a formative effect on her. Before becoming a full-time writer, Cather worked as a journalist, a magazine editor and a teacher. Her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, was published in 1912, followed by titles including O Pioneers! (1913); The Song of the Lark (1915); My Ántonia (1918); One of Ours (1922), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She died in New York in 1947.

Produktdetails

• Great Plains Trilogy
• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 135mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781784874438
• ISBN-10: 1784874434
• Artikelnr.: 54345819