Description
A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.
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: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/16/1990
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.21w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780679728870
ISBN10: 0679728872
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
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: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/16/1990
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.21w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780679728870
ISBN10: 0679728872
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
About the Author
WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.