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Auteur(s) : Cather, Willa (1873-1947)
Rubrique de classement : [Correspondance (anglais). 1888-1947]
Titre(s) : The selected letters of Willa Cather [Texte imprimé] / edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout
Édition : 1st ed
Publication : New York : A. A. Knopf, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIII-715 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : School years : 1888-1896 ; Pittsburgh years : 1896-1906 ; McClure's years : 1906-1912
; Finding herself as a writer : 1912-1916 ; Becoming well known : 1916-1918 ; Change
of publishers and One of Ours : 1919-1922 ; Years of mastery : 1923-1927 ; Years
of loss : 1928-1931 ; Troubled time : 1932-1936 ; Years of grieving : 1937-1939
; Culmination of a career : 1940-1943 ; Final years : 1944-1947.
Note(s) : "This is a Borzoi book.". - Includes bibliographical references (p. [695]-696) and index
A first publication of the acclaimed writer's personal correspondences includes whimsical
teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism
years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles
with aging. -- Publishers Description ; "This first publication of the letters of
one of America's most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant
literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade
the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after
her death, with her literary reputation as secure as a reputation can be, the letters
have become available for publication. The 566 letters collected here, nearly 20 percent
of the total, range from the funny (and mostly misspelled) reports of life in Red
Cloud in the 1880s that Cather wrote as a teenager, through those from her college
years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New
York, and during her growing eminence as a novelist. Postcards and letters describe
her many travels around the United States and abroad, and they record her last years
in the 1940s, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought
her near to despair. Written to family and close friends and to such luminaries as
Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Frost, Yehudi Menuhin, Sinclair Lewis, and the president
of Czechoslovakia, Thomas Masaryk, they reveal her in her daily life as a woman and
writer passionately interested in people, literature, and the arts in general. The
voice heard in these letters is one we already know from her fiction: confident, elegant,
detailed, openhearted, concerned with profound ideas, but also at times funny, sentimental,
and sarcastic. Unfiltered as only intimate communication can be, they are also full
of small fibs, emotional outbursts, inconsistencies, and the joys and sorrows of the
moment. The Selected Letters is a deep pleasure to read and to ponder, sure to appeal
to those with a special devotion to Cather as well as to those just making her acquaintance"--Publisher's
website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Jewell, Andrew (1975-....). Éditeur scientifique
Stout, Janis P. (1939-....). Éditeur scientifique
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780307959300 (hardcover). - ISBN 0307959309 (hardcover). - ISBN 9780307959317
(erroné) (ebook). - ISBN 0307959317 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43673606t
Notice n° :
FRBNF43673606
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