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Plot summary. Book I: Lucy Gayheart. On Christmas holiday away from her piano studies in Chicago, Lucy Gayheart is ice skating in her hometown of Haverford, Nebraska. Harry Gordon, the most eligible bachelor in town, joins her. Later she takes the train back to Chicago - he is with her until the Omaha stop.
Lucy Gayheart (1935) was Cather’s last novel set on the Great Plains and has drawn critical attention to it as a gothic romance. This late novel in Cather’s life also notes a subtle tonal shift from her earlier works.
Language. English. At head of title: By Willa Cather. "Published August 1, 1935. First and second printings before publication." Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world. Access-restricted-item.
Lucy Gayheart by Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Publication date 1935 Publisher Toronto : Ryerson Press Collection printdisabled; trent_university; internetarchivebooks
novel by Cather. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Willa Cather. …the much-anthologized “Paul’s Case,” and Lucy Gayheart (1935), Cather reflected the other side of her experience—the struggle of a talent to emerge from the constricting life of the prairies and the stifling effects of small-town life. Read More.
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather In this haunting novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series of crystalline variations on the...
Return to Main Bibliography. Lucy Gayheart. Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. "It was a discovery about life, a revelation of love as a tragic force, not a melting mood, of passion that drowns like black water." Editions. Serialization. First serialized in five installments in the Woman's Home Companion from March to July, 1935. First Edition.
