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008			102801s1999 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a98052932
020			_a9781410420077
082	0	0	_aLARP FIC CAT
100	1		_aCather, Willa Sibert, 1873-1947
245	1	4	_aThe song of the lark _c/ Willa Cather
260			_aWaterville, ME _b: Kennebec _c, c1999.
300			_a663 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aLeon Edel In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can't forget and from the man she can't afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not enough. It is in the solitude of a tiny rock chamber high in the side of an Arizona cliff--"a cleft in the heart of the world"--that Thea comes face to face with her own dreams and desires, stripped clean by the haunting purity of the ruined cliff dwellings and inspired by the whisperings of their ancient dust. Here she finds the courage to seize her future and to use her gifts to catch "the shining, elusive element that is life itself--life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose." In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self.
650			_aWomen singers _v--Fiction
650		0	_aChildren of clergy _x--Fiction
650			_aSwedish Americans _v--Fiction
650		4	_aYoung women _v--Fiction
650		0	_aOpera _x--Fiction
651		0	_aChicago (Ill.) _x--Fiction
651		0	_aColorado _x--Fiction
655		4	_aMusical fiction
830			_aLarge print books
942			_cMO
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