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Chasing bright medusas : a life of Willa Cather / Benjamin Taylor.

Summary:

"A brief and tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a life-long lover of Willa Cather's work"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593298824
  • ISBN: 0593298829
  • Physical Description: 180 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-172) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
To a desert place -- Outspokenness -- Years of frenzy -- The big clean up-grade -- Breaking free -- A painful and peculiar pleasure -- The bright faces of danger -- Deeper soundings -- This hardihood of spirit -- Things unguessed at and unforeseeable -- A kind of golden light -- If we had our lives to live over again -- Leave-takings.
Subject: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
Women novelists, American > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 12 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Harnett County Library.

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