Lucy Gayheart
by Willa Cather
ISBN: 156054483X
ISBN-13: 9781560544838
Format: Hardcover
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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: Thorndike Pr
Published date: 1992
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
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Lucy Gayheart LARGE PRINT, COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED
Cather, Willa
Thorndike Press, 1992. LARGE PRINT EDITION. hardcover. Very Good reading copy condition, clean text, sound binding. LARGE PRINT EDITION/COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED. We specialize in LARGE PRINT Books for Easy-on-the-Eyes Reading. First published 1935. 2 ISBN: 156054483x. ( more information) Offered by Snooty Literary Society (United States)
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Lucy Gayheart ( Large Print )
Cather, Willa
Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.: Thorndike Press, 1992 Good Good Good Good Good Good Ex Library Large print. ex library book with usual markings (card holder, stamps, etc. ), pages are clean and intact, GREAT BOOK!. Hard Cover. Good/Unknown. ( more information) Offered by Midwest Book Company (United States)
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