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Collected stories
Title:
Collected stories
ISBN:
9780679736486
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Physical Description:
493 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Flavia and her artists -- garden lodge -- marriage of Phaedra -- Coming, Aphrodite! -- diamond mine -- gold slipper -- Scandal -- Paul's case -- Wagner matinée -- sculptor's funeral -- death in the desert" -- Neighbour Rosicky -- Old Mrs. Harris -- Two friends -- old beauty -- best years -- Before breakfast -- enchanted bluff -- Tom Outland's story -- Willa Cather's unfinished Avignon story,
Summary:
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 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.
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