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Zusatztext 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 Informationen zum Autor Born in 1873 to a family who had farmed in Virginia for generations, Willa Cather moved to her father's new ranch in Nebraska when she was eight. The raw frontier territories and the pioneer life of the Old West were to awaken her imagination and furnish the atmosphere for much of her later work. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather became a teacher and a journalist. In 1912 she abandoned journalism to write full time. Her first novel was Alexander's Bridge (1912) though she had already published a volume of poems and another of short stories. Her vivid novels cover a wide range: there are impassioned and thoughtful explorations of the ancient worlds of the Americas in The Professor's House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) as well as sympathetic portrayals of conflicting values, or of the demands of art. These, along with her evocations of the pioneering West, soon established her reputation as one of America's foremost writers. Willa Cather died in New York in 1947. Klappentext * 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 Vorwort The Cinderella story of Thea Kronborg, rescued from obscurity in the American Midwest by Cather's exquisite voice. Zusammenfassung The Cinderella story of Thea Kronborg, rescued from obscurity in the American Midwest by Cather's exquisite voice.
