EPISODE · Nov 1, 2016 · 5H 9M
Willa Cather presents Lucy Gayheart
from Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Willa Cather
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucy Gayheart Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs 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 eighteen, 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucy Gayheart Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs 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 eighteen, 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.
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