| Author: | Willa Cather | ISBN: | 9780307805218 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | August 24, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Willa Cather |
| ISBN: | 9780307805218 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | August 24, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
