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A Lost Lady
Willa Cather, LuAnn Walther
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Overview
Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms", and in fulfilling herself, she loses all she loved and all who loved her. This, Willa Cather's most perfect novel, is not only a portrait of a troubling beauty, but also a haunting evocation of a noble age slipping irrevocably into the past.A portrait of a lady who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline of the American frontier.
Book Details
Published
June 1, 1990
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780679728870