Willa Cather

Hermione Lee

Aug. 2017 · Verkauft von Vintage

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Hermione Lee’s provocative and influential biography provides a sensitive reappraisal of a marvelous and often underrated writer.

The Willa Cather she reveals here was a Nebraskan who spent much of her life in self-imposed exile from the prairies she celebrated in O Pioneers! and My Antonia, a woman whose life was riddled with the tension between masculine and feminine, and a writer whose naturalness of style disguised exquisite artistry. By exposing the contradictions that lie at the heart of much of Cather’s life and work, Lee locates new layers of meaning and places her firmly at the forefront of the modern literary tradition that was taking shape in her time.

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HERMIONE LEE is a biographer, critic, and teacher of literature. Her books include the internationally acclaimed biography, Virginia Woolf ("One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful", Financial Times) and Edith Wharton ("A feat of exhaustive research... a glorious biography", Independent on Sunday), as well as books on Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth. Her collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts, was published in 2005, and her Biography: A Very Short Introduction in 2009. She is the President of Wolfson College Oxford. In 2013 she was made a Dame for services to Literary Scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.