| A Lost Lady Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author), Damron, Will (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1982673265 ISBN-13: 9781982673260 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 6.7" (0.20 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic. Mrs. Forrester is a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability, and whose inevitable decline with age is symbolic of the West itself and its fall from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation, and A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. |
Contributor Bio(s): Damron, Will: - Will Damron was raised in southern Virginia and is a novelist and award-winning audiobook narrator. He has also worked as a stage actor and historical interpreter. When not roving the great outdoors in Scotland, New England, or the American West, he can be found in his studio in Los Angeles. Cather, Willa: - Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she graduated from the University of Nebraska, and she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, April Twilights, a collection of poems, was published, and two years later The Troll Garden, a collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Oursin 1923. She died in 1947. |