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Title: Lucy Gayheart

Author: Willa Cather

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-16

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts - that and nothing more."

In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series of crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art.

At the age of 18, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last 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.

Critic Reviews:

"The unity of Miss Cather's design, the clarity and distinction of this book, should put it beside her first great success, My Ántonia." [The Times Literary Supplement (London)]

Members Reviews:

Actress Joanne Woodward's all time favorite book

This book was the #1 all time favorite book of actress Joanne Woodward (there's a NYTimes article written in 1998 that tells the story of her love for this book). She actually booked herself into Symphony Space in NYC for two nights in a row and simply read the book aloud -- and sold out both nights. It was her dream to turn it into a film, but now she is too old to tackle such a project. She made so many wonderful films during her career; I highly recommend this book so you can see why Joanne Woodward became so passionate about it. It's an excellent candidate for a Book Club read, too -- it's more a novella than a novel -- someday I hope some filmmaker WILL make this into a film.

Wonderful, but sad

Wonderful book, just very sad. Left me slightly heart-broken. Not exactly the most uplifting book you can read. At the same time, itâs masterfully written, and definitely deserves a place on your shelf.

I just started the book and it's as good as Cather's other writing

Took over 3 weeks to arrive from OH to TX. I just started the book and it's as good as Cather's other writing. She's never a disappointment!

A Beautiful Story

I couldn't out it down. A sad story of youth and love and loss. Lucy Gayheart is a timeless story.

tragic tale of misplaced love

Tragic tale as Cather's stories go. Read it first in high school when I walked everywhere.