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A biography of Willa Cather (1873-1947), who spent years working as a journalist, teacher and editor of a New York magazine whose deepest feelings were directed towards women. Her friendships from Sarah Orne Jewett and Dorothy Canfield to Stephen Tennant and Yehudi Menuhin were important to her yet as she became more famous she withdrew increasingly from the modern world she disliked. Willa Cather's fiction charts new, female versions of epic pioneering heroism and the extraordinary cultural encounters of the New World history. This major reinterpretation of Cather's work explores that American context and those traditions but finds a strange and disconcerting Cather a writer of split identities, sexual conflict, dramatic energies and stoic fatalism. The author has written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf and Philip Roth and The Short Stories of Willa Cather .

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Willa Cather
• Author: Hermione Lee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9781844084920
• ISBN: 1844084922
• ID: 04262673
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 484 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 127 × 28 mm

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