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  A Lost Lady (Virago modern classics) (Paperback) By (author) Willa Cather

  

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  Short Description for A Lost LadyA portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.
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  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
  • Published: 07 September 2006
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9781844083732 ISBN 10: 184408373X
  • Sales rank: 273,425

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• Marian Forrester brings delight to her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; to the small town of Sweet Water where they live; and to Niel Herbert, the young narrator of her story, who falls in love with her as a boy and later becomes her confidant. He witnesses this vibrant woman in all her contradictory facets: by turns faithless and steadfast, dazzling and pathetic, invincibly charming yet dangerously vulnerable to the men she charms. All are bewitched by her charisma and grace - and all are ultimately betrayed. 'This classic has the striking economy of Hemingway, and is as poignant an elegy for the pioneer West as I have read. The vivacious Marian Forrester stands as a romantic paean to the pioneer's reckless abandon, counterpointed by the narrator's prim decency' The Times