A Lost Lady

Cather, Willa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184408373X ISBN 13: 9781844083732

Casa editrice: Virago, 2006

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.

Recensione:

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)

Descrizione del libro:

A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.