A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
Author: Willa Cather
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/16/1990
Series: Vintage Classics
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.21w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780679728870
Language: English
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