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WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My ntonia, 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.
All the stories Willa Cather wanted published in book form --
collected for the first time in one volume.
A ruined beauty whose dignity has survived a lifetime of loss and
disenchantment. A Czech immigrant who finds a paradoxical
contentment on the harsh expanse of the Nebraska prairie. A
solitary young painter spying raptly and guiltily on his exquisite
neighbor. These are some of the lives that Willa Cather renders,
with a fine balance of compassion and detachment, in these nineteen
stories. Here are the landscapes that have awed readers of novels
like O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop, from frontier
farms to the red rock canyons of the Southwest.
Here are the great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of
land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has
no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; the ways in
which the American frontier transformed the strangers who came to
it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. In these fictions,
Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place,
and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a
closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.
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