The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather author Evi O Studio illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:26th Apr '07
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
* The Cinderella story of Thea Kronborg, rescued from obscurity in the American Midwest by her exquisite voice * Strongly autobiographical * 'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A.S. BYATT
The Cinderella story of Thea Kronborg, rescued from obscurity in the American Midwest by Cather's exquisite voice.
'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' OBSERVER
'The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway' LEON EDEL
'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A. S. BYATT
Thea Kronborg is born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest. One of seven children, she is somehow set apart, a fact recognised by the discerning few, including Ray Kennedy who longs to marry her, but whose fate it is to set her free.
With her rugged will and pioneer spirit, Thea carves her way from Moonstone, Colorado, to windy Chicago, from Dresden to New York and a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan Opera. She becomes a great opera singer but learns that as a true artist, she must make the most bitter sacrifices of all . . .
In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self.
She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers * Observer *
The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway -- Leon Edel
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic -- Helen Dunmore
The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work -- A. S. Byatt
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness . . . Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page -- Marina Warner
A tremendous, ranging story, economical and distilled as poetry, fast moving, rich and short. A mighty subject. A lovely book * JANE GARDAM of DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP *
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic * HELEN DUNMORE *
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness ... Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page * MARINA WARNER *
ISBN: 9781844084234
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 38mm
Weight: 480g
592 pages