Description |
180 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-172) and index. |
Contents |
To a desert place -- Outspokenness -- Years of frenzy -- The big clean up-grade -- Breaking free -- A painful and peculiar pleasure -- The bright face 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. |
Subject |
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
|
|
Women novelists, American -- Biography.
|
|
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 (OCoLC)fst00050013
|
|
Women novelists, American (OCoLC)fst01178201
|
Genre/Form |
Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
|
|
Biographies.
|
Other Form: |
Online version: Taylor, Benjamin, 1952- Chasing bright medusas [New York] : Viking, [2023] 9780593298831 (DLC) 2023005010 |
ISBN |
9780593298824 (hardcover) |
|
0593298829 (hardcover) |
|