Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather (1976, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100394717562

ISBN-139780394717562

eBay Product ID (ePID)1989377

Product Key Features

Publication Year1976

TopicLiterary

Book TitleLucy Gayheart

LanguageEnglish

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorWilla Cather

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight5.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Volume NumberVol. 756

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Synopsis""Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts--that and nothing more."" In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series of 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.