Lucy Gayheart
by Willa Cather
ISBN: 0394717562
ISBN-13: 9780394717562
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Lucy Gayheart, aged 18, leaves her small-town lover to go to Chicago to study music. She has a tempestuous love affair with an aging charmer-a singer for whom she abandons her career, a decision that leads eventually to her destruction.
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"The author is attempting in this late novel something as complex and experimental as anything she had written... A philosophical work in which the author reflects on the artistic process and its relation to life, death, and immortality..." -- Paul Comeau
-- Prairie Schooner
"The obscure life of a young girl in an American village who goes to Chicago to study music, fall in love, knows a brief moment of deep contentment and then the pain of a separation that is final."
-- Times (London)
"When I think of the Midwest in literary terms, I turn first to Willa Cather, not to her more known novels..., but to her novellas, in particular LUCY GAYHEART." -- Mary Morris
-- Salon
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1976
Size: 4.25 x 7.25 inches
Weight: 0.4 pounds
Publisher's Notes
A young village girl travels to Chicago hoping to study music and finds romance with a middle-aged singer.
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Lucy Gayheart V756
Willa Cather
Vintage, 1976-03-12. Paperback. Good. This book is in good condition. ( more information) Offered by The Book Center (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart V756
Cather, Willa
Vintage. PAPERBACK. 0394717562 Paperback - [CATHER, WILLA] LUCY GAYHEART . Very Good. ( more information) Offered by The Book Keeper, LLC (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart
Cather, Willa
Vantage Group, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. clean text, tight binding,no markings,no writing, edgewear ( more information) Offered by CHANDA'S BARGAIN BOOKS (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart V756
Willa Cather
Vintage, 1976-03-12. Paperback. Good. We suggest the use of priority shipping, where available. Media mail can take up to three weeks for delivery. We ship every business day. Used books may not contain original publisher materials, ie cd and infotrak ( more information) Offered by textbook recycle (United States)
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LUCY GAYHEART
Cather, Willa
New York: Vintage, 1976 Ex-Library with plastic protective cover and library stickers. Clean and tight pages.. Paperback. Acceptable. ( more information) Offered by SYBERKATZ Books (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart
Cather, Willa
NY: Vintage. 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by The Whodunit Company (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart
Cather, Willa
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Books. 1976. Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good -. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. ( more information) Offered by Second Chance Books (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart
Cather, Willa
Antioch, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Vantage Group, 1976 Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by A Good Read (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart
Cather, Willa
Vintage. Paperback. Used; Acceptable. Pocket Paperback. Yellowing around edges. Inside covers darkening. ( more information) Offered by BlueCat Books (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart
Cather, Willa
New York, New York: Vantage Group, 1976 LOVELY mass market paperback with NO marks or writing of any kind. All clean/bright. Binding is LIKE NEW - straight and tight. Covers shiny/glossy. Text block is tight and corners square. Back cover has a superficial crease that runs vertically top to bottom (barely visible) and front cover has a few VERY minor, superficial scratchy-type marks - again, barely visible. Still, a lovely reading copy of a Cather classic. . Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. NOT Ex-library. ( more information) Offered by BELLYFIREBOOKS (United States)
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