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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author), Jewell, Andrew (Editor), Stout, Janis (Editor)
ISBN: 0804172277     ISBN-13: 9780804172271
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Letters
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 1.47" H x 5.23" W x 8.23" (1.54 lbs) 752 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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**Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**

Willa Cather's letters--withheld from publication for more than six decades--are finally available to the public in this fascinating selection. The hundreds collected here range from witty reports of life as a teenager in Red Cloud in the 1880s through her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and her growing eminence as a novelist. They describe her many travels and record her last years, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Above all, they reveal her passionate interest in people, literature, and the arts. The voice is one we recognize from her fiction: confident, elegant, detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times sentimental, sarcastic, and funny. A deep pleasure to read, this volume reveals the intimate joys and sorrows of one of America's most admired writers.