The Song of the Lark - Penguin Modern Classics
The Song of the Lark - Penguin Modern Classics
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6 September, 2018
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Description
The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman
Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist.
'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' Helen Dunmore
'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A. S. Byatt
'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241338162 |
| ISBN10 | 0241338166 |
| Number Of Pages | 448 |
| Item Weight | 310 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 199 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine. This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York. Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913 and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia, as well as her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947.