A Lost Lady - Willa Cather & Maureen Corrigan

A Lost Lady

By Willa Cather & Maureen Corrigan

  • Release Date: 1990-06-16
  • Genre: Classics
Score: 4.5
4.5
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Description

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.