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"Some people's lives are afflicted with what happens with their person or their house, but for others fate is what happens to their thoughts and their thoughts - that and little or nothing more." In such a haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop works some crystalline variations on the styles that preoccupy her biggest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American ideals and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young female who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in artwork. At the age of 18, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to review music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these features attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an increasing age but charismatic vocalist who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life and then reverse to seize it one final time. Out of the doomed love affair - and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins - Willa Cather creates a novel that is really as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata.
