The Short Stories Of Willa Cather
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The Short Stories Of Willa Cather by Willa Cather
'The thing about Willa Cather's landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades' GUARDIAN 'Short stories speak to those aspects of experience in which that loneliness seems most acutely felt' NEW YORK TIMES 'She possessed an intensity of observation and a curiosity about human psychology, especially as it relates to nature, that never waned' PARIS REVIEW This rich selection of Willa Cather's short fiction is drawn from every period of her writing life, and mixes the little known with the much anthologised. Here we have a range of stories from short, vivid sketches to novellas. They tell of the bitter lives of Nebraskan immigrants and of the pull between provincial America and the cosmopolitan world of art. Some of the most poignant deal with the challenges and dilemmas for the American artist. Her marvellous late stories are charged with beautifully controlled feeling and eloquently describe the tensions and complications of family life. Cather also let herself go in these stories in ways she did not in the longer fiction with harsh satires of New York, chilling glimpses of the supernatural and strong expressions of sexual feeling. These are stories that add immeasurably to our perception of Cather's range and complexity.
The thing about Willa Cather's landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades * Guardian *
Short stories speak to those aspects of experience in which that loneliness seems most acutely felt * New York Times *
Forty-five years is a long career for a novelist, but she possessed an intensity of observation and a curiosity about human psychology, especially as it relates to nature, that never waned * Paris Review *
But Cather is not just a good writer - she is unique, and great -- AS. Byatt * Guardian *
The thing about Willa Cather's landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades * The Guardian *
Short stories speak to those aspects of experience in which that loneliness seems most acutely felt * New York Times *
Forty-five years is a long career for a novelist, but she possessed an intensity of observation and a curiosity about human psychology, especially as it relates to nature, that never waned * Paris Review *
But Cather is not just a good writer - she is unique, and great -- AS. Byatt * Guardian *
The thing about Willa Cather's landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades * The Guardian *
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 | 9781844084227 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844084221 |
| Title | The Short Stories Of Willa Cather |
| Author | Willa Cather |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2007-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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