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Willa Cather

Name: Willa Cather
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Author: Hermione Lee
ISBN: 9781101973936

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Published on Aug 08, 2017 | 448 Pages

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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.

“Cather could not have hoped for a more passionately sensible and insightful interpreter.” —The Observer

“The biographer’s enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page.” —Hilary Mantel

“A valuable critical study. . . . So absorbing that it provokes a rereading of [all of Cather’s] work.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Sympathetic and illuminating. . . . Lee’s reading of Cather rediscovers her as a disconcerting, complex writer of conflicting energies and sexual doubleness.” —New Statesman

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Hermione Lee

HERMIONE LEE was president of Wolfson College (2008-2017) and is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. Her work includes biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald (winner of the James Tait Black Prize and one of the New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2014). She has also written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Roth, and Willa Cather. Lee was awarded the Biographers’ Club Prize for Exceptional Contribution to Biography in 2018. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 she was made a CBE, and in 2013 she was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship.

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By Hermione Lee