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WILLA CATHER
Stories

Author: Willa Cather
Narrator: Melissa Hughes

 

imageAges: 15 and up

Cassette:
Length: 3 hrs / 2 cassettes
ISBN#1-883332-29-X
Price: $22.95
 
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Audio Reviews:

"Hughes is a truly gifted actor who masters the varied and challenging accents found in Cather's bleak frontier stories...Cather's ability to trace human longing and Hughes' sensitivity coalesce to create a memorable audio portrait."
                     -AudioFile

"What a wonderful sampling of rich regional American writing is found here...Hughes skillfully interprets Cather's stories."
                     -Booklist

"Listenable and entertaining - Hughes' capable handling of the Old World Immigrant accents adds a valuable dimension to the recording. A great American author presented in an accessible, easily digestible form."
                     -Kliatt

"These latest additions to the Voices series are outstanding. This recording will be welcome additions to collections in all public libraries."
                     -Library Journal

SYNOPSIS:

Think of Willa Cather and think of Nebraska - its Divide, its plains, its colors and awesome horizon lines. Her stories and novels embrace life there in the early 1900's as no other author's works have done. These six stories represent frontier life in Nebraska - its desperation, loneliness and triumphs. They are a slice of American history and regional fiction that are often overshadowed by Cather's classic novels such as My Antonia and O Pioneers (available in unabridged audiobook from Audio Bookshelf.) The audiobook begins with a thumbnail sketch of the author.

Stories included are: Peter, On the Divide, The Sculptor's Funeral, The Sentimentality of William Tavener, A Wagner Matinee, Eric Hermannson's Soul.