Lucy Gayheart Audiobook by Willa Cather

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1511 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lucy Gayheart Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 11-01-16 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: "Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts - that and nothing more." In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series of crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art. At the age of 18, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affair - and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins - Willa Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata. Critic Reviews: "The unity of Miss Cather's design, the clarity and distinction of this book, should put it beside her first great success, My Ántonia." [The Times Literary Supplement (London)]