Chasing bright medusas : a life of Willa Cather
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW BIOGRAPHY/CATHER,W
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
180 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593298824, 0593298829 :, 0593298829, 9780593298824
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
"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"--