Chasing bright medusas : a life of Willa Cather / Benjamin Taylor.

• To a desert place -- Outspokenness -- Years of frenzy -- The big clean up-grade -- Breaking free -- A painful and peculiar pleasure -- The bright faces of danger -- Deeper soundings -- This hardihood of spirit -- Things unguessed at and unforeseeable -- A kind of golden light -- If we had our lives to live over again -- Leave-takings.

• "A brief and tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a life-long lover of Willa Cather's work"-- 
• "The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. Some show their full powers early, yet Cather was the opposite--she took her time and transformed herself by stages. The writer who leapt to the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918) was already well into middle age. Through years of provincial journalism in Nebraska, brief spells of teaching, and editorial work on magazines, she persevered in pursuit of the ultimate goal--literary immortality. Unlike Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, her idealism was unironic, and she stood alone among the great modern authors--at odds with the fashionable attitudes of her time. Combining intricate analysis with an empathetic, lyrical voice, Benjamin Taylor uncovers the reality of Cather's artistic development, from modest beginnings to the triumphs of her mature years. His book is simultaneously an homage to her character, a warm consideration of her work, and a case being made to read Cather with renewed vigor."-- 

Ämnesord

Romanförfattare  (sao)

Kvinnliga författare  (sao)

Amerikanska författare  (sao)

Women novelists, American  (fast)

Novelists  (LCSH)

Women authors  (LCSH)

Authors, American  (LCSH)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personnamn

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Klassifikation

813/.52 (DDC)