The Song of the Lark
- Auteur: Willa Cather (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1915
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Classics
- Omvang: 448 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9.99 / £ 7,99
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol
Willa Cather The Song of the Lark review, recensie en informatie
- “Lingers long in the memory.” (Joyce Carol Oates)
- “Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic.” (Helen Dunmore)
- “The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work.” (A.S. Byatt)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1915 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Willa Cather
The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman.
Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift – her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist.
Willa Cather was born on 7 December 1873 in Gore, Virginia. She 
was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944. By the time of her death in 1947 she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry. She died on 24 April 1947 in New York City, 73 years of age.