A Lost Lady (Virago Modern Classics)

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184408373X ISBN 13: 9781844083732

Verlag: Virago, 2006

Light wear to cover. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Críticas:

She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers (OBSERVER)

Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic (HELEN DUNMORE)

A poised and perfectly shaped novel (DAILY MAIL)

Her finest novel . . . A masterpiece (IRISH TIMES)

Reseña del editor:

Marian Forrester brings delight to her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; to the small town of Sweet Water where they live; and to Niel Herbert, the young narrator of her story, who falls in love with her as a boy and later becomes her confidant. He witnesses this vibrant woman in all her contradictory facets: by turns faithless and steadfast, dazzling and pathetic, invincibly charming yet dangerously vulnerable to the men she charms. All are bewitched by her charisma and grace - and all are ultimately betrayed.

'This classic has the striking economy of Hemingway, and is as poignant an elegy for the pioneer West as I have read. The vivacious Marian Forrester stands as a romantic paean to the pioneer's reckless abandon, counterpointed by the narrator's prim decency' The Times