Lucy Gayheart by As Byatt
'The unity of Miss Cather's design, the clarity and distinction of this book, should put it beside her first great success, My Antonia' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' OBSERVER 'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' HELEN DUNMORE It is 1901, and Lucy Gayheart with her 'singular brightness of young beauty' is studying music in the magical smoky city of Chicago. She is courted by handsome Harry Gordon, the most eligible bachelor in Haverford, the Midwestern town she comes from. But Lucy falls in love with middle-aged Clement Sebastien, a famous singer whose talents and tenderness change her life forever. Out of their doomed love affair and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins, Willa Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata. First published in 1935, this novel of 'achieved simplicity' displays the depth of Willa Cather's sympathy, both for the world of high art and for the reticent decencies of small town life.
The unity of Miss Cather's design, the clarity and distinction of this book, should put it beside her first great success, My Antonia * Times Literary Supplement *
This new novel of Miss Cather's bids fair to rank with her best selling titles.. It is a vividly etched characterization, the story of a girl born to live up to the promise of her name * Kirkus Reviews *
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic -- Helen Dunmore
She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers * Observer *
This new novel of Miss Cather's bids fair to rank with her best selling titles.. It is a vividly etched characterization, the story of a girl born to live up to the promise of her name * Kirkus Reviews *
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic -- Helen Dunmore
She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers * Observer *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860685128 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860685128 |
| Title | Lucy Gayheart |
| Author | As Byatt |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1985-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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