Lucy Gayheart

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Classics, Literary
Cover of the book Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Willa Cather ISBN: 9780307805232
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: August 24, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9780307805232
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: August 24, 2011
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on 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 leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art.

At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. 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.

BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. 

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In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on 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 leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art.

At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. 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.

BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. 

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