Lucy Gayheart

"Some people's lives are tormented by what takes place to their person or their belongings, but for others, destiny is what takes place to their emotions and their thoughtsthat and not anything greater". In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prizeprevailing author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop plays a chain of crystalline versions on the topics that preoccupy her finest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and international tradition, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that watch for a talented younger woman who leaves her small Nebraska city to pursue a life in art. At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to have a look at the song. She is stunning and impressionable and ardent. and these traits appeal to the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced existence only to show back to capture it one closing 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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