The seven stories in this volume were written during the ascending and perhaps most triumphant years of Willa Cather's career, the period during which she published nine books, including My Antonia, A Lost Lady, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. For the most part ironic in tone, these stories are, as Bernice Slote observes, bound by the geometrics of urban life--streets and offices, workers and firms, the business world of New York and Pittsburgh, the cities which by 1929 Willa Cather had known well for over thirty years." In her introduction, Slote discusses their biographical elements, connections with earlier and later work, and the intricate patterns that lie below the lucid, shimmering surface of Willa Cather's prose.
- ISBN10 0803208200
- ISBN13 9780803208209
- Publish Date 1 April 1973
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 September 1998
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nebraska Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 183
- Language English