The Song of the Lark
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The second novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life.
'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates
Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice, defies her humble beginnings in Colorado and finds success far from her small hometown. But her achievements come with painful drawbacks. As the distance between Thea and her roots increases, she must fight to find her inner strength and reach her full potential.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PENELOPE LIVELY
About this Author
Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on to have a formative effect on her. Before becoming a full-time writer, Cather worked as a journalist, a magazine editor and a teacher.
Her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, was published in 1912, followed by titles including O Pioneers! (1913); The Song of the Lark (1915); My Ántonia (1918); One of Ours (1922), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She died in New York in 1947.
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 560
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2019-10-29
Reviews
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic--Helen Dunmore
The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work--A. S. Byatt
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