Willa Cather
A Life Saved Up
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:5th Oct '89
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A masterly biography of one of America's most important 20th-century writers, written by Hermione LeeA biography of Willa Cather (1873-1947), who spent years working as a journalist, teacher and editor of a New York magazine whose deepest feelings were directed towards women. Her friendships from Sarah Orne Jewett and Dorothy Canfield to Stephen Tennant and Yehudi Menuhin were important to her yet as she became more famous she withdrew increasingly from the modern world she disliked. Willa Cather's fiction charts new, female versions of epic pioneering heroism and the extraordinary cultural encounters of the New World history. This major reinterpretation of Cather's work explores that American context and those traditions but finds a strange and disconcerting Cather a writer of split identities, sexual conflict, dramatic energies and stoic fatalism. The author has written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf and Philip Roth and The Short Stories of Willa Cather .
Willa Cather could not have hoped for a more passionately sensible and insightful interpreter . . . Hermione Lee's enthusiasm for this misunderstood writer is contagious and her book is that rare thing, a scholarly study that reads well -- Maureen Freely * Observer *
The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page. Despite her special place in American letters Willa Cather has never been much read or studied in England, and Hermione Lee . . . must be congratulated for bringing us to her measured, humane, unflinching voice * Literary Review *
The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page -- Hilary Mantel
An affectionate, meticulous study, at once intimate and impersonal * Observer *
A sympathetic and illuminating study -- Nicci Gerrard * New Statesman *
Willa Cather could not have hoped for a more passionately sensible and insightful interpreter . . . Hermione Lee's enthusiasm for this misunderstood writer is contagious and her book is that rare thing, a scholarly study that reads well * Maureen Freely, Observer *
'The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page * Hilary Mantel *
A sympathetic and illuminating study * Nicci Gerrard, New Statesman *
An affectionate, meticulous study, at once intimate and impersonal * OBSERVER *
ISBN: 9781844084920
Dimensions: 133mm x 199mm x 25mm
Weight: 290g
416 pages