Willa Cather
Hermione Lee
Willa Cather, author of My Antonia and O Pioneers! and widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers, has also been dismissed in certain circles as a sentimental nostalgist, a grumpy critic of the modern world. Hermione Lee offers an alternative interpretation of a writer whose life and work were marked by fracture and dislocation, carefully suppressed or camouflaged desires, and a greater interest in the craft of writing than in an old-fashioned longing for rural simplicity. By analyzing the language and entering the landscapes of Cather’s fiction, Lee provides a sensitive and perceptive account of this famously private woman and discovers an unrivaled imagination, a complexity wrongly interpreted as conservatism, and finally, a writer like no other.
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| ISBN | 9781844084920 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
| Publication Date | 2008 |
| Publisher | Virago Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 416 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 14663 |
