The Song of the Lark: A Singer's Rise from a Colorado Town
Willa Cather
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A doctor's protegee in a Colorado railroad town has a voice, and the novel follows every unglamorous step by which a voice becomes an instrument: the lessons, the borrowed money, the years of accompanying other people. Cather built Thea on the Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad, whom she interviewed and then followed about for a season. It is the longest and most patient of her books, and it is really about the price of choosing one thing over everything else. Fifty-eight plates by painters including Albert Bierstadt and Winslow Homer follow the story's westward light, from Glacier Station sunrises to girls in orchards.
A doctor's protegee in a Colorado railroad town has a voice, and the novel follows every unglamorous step by which a voice becomes an instrument: the lessons, the borrowed money, the years of accompanying other people. Cather built Thea on the Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad, whom she interviewe...
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Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American novelist born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie. She edited McClure's Magazine before writing full time and won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours. Her works include O Pioneers!, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and the early stories and criticism.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American novelist born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie. She edited McClure's Magazine before writing full time and won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours. Her works include O Pioneers!, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and the early storie...
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