Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Cather, Willa |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 9/26/1995 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variationson 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 leavesher small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art.
At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheartheads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent,and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismaticsinger who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renouncedlife only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affair—andLucy’s fatal estrangement from her origins—Willa Cather creates a novel that is asachingly lovely as a Schubert sonata.
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