| A Lost Lady Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author), Corrigan, Maureen (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679728872 ISBN-13: 9780679728870 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1990 Annotation: A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | African American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89040544 |
| Series: Vintage Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.21" W x 7.99" (0.41 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Nebraska |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability. |