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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( G ) : Grumbach, Doris
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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
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O Pioneers!, Willa Cather's first great novel, is the classic American story of pioneer life as embodied by one remarkable woman and her singular devotion to the land. Alexandra Bergson arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Nebraska as a young girl and grows up to turn it into a prosperous farm. In this unforgettable story,Cather conveys both the physical realities of the landscape, as well as the mythic sweep of the transformation of the frontier, more faithfully and perhaps more fully than any other work of fiction.
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Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable story of American determination and its inextricable connection to the land.
"The time will come when she'll be ranked above Hemingway." -- Leon Edel
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Started on the eve of the author's seventieth birthday, this year-long journal records the process of slowly slipping into old age, including coming to terms with losses and with powerful memories. Reprint. PW.
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The writer offers a poetic, profound record of an ordinary, yet active, year in her later life, filled with literary events and travel, the natural beauties of coastal Maine, and the shadow of illness and mortality. Reprint. NYT.
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"A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one."
Newsday
In the late 18th century, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defied all conventions of their Irish homeland and eloped to Wales as a married couple.
There, over many years, they forged a romantic paradise from a simple country cottage and a few acres of land. They called it "Plas Newydd" the New Place. Their home was filled with light and love, with the pursuit of enlightenment, with exquisite expressions of their devotion. Their land contained gardens and quiet paths for walking, fruit trees and flowers and bees, sheep and chickens and cows.
Eleanor and Sarah lived in almost utter solitude. When the outside world eventually discovered them, many people journeyed to Wales out of curiosity to meet the renowned "Ladies of Llangollen." All of them came away with profound respect for their way of life, their love for each other, and their courage to be themselves.
"Understated and elegant, this slim book is a true classic on that rarest of relationships, companions of the heart."
San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
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"As if Willa Cather had decided to tell the whole truth....We are captured by her craft."—John Leonard, New York Times
Long out of print, Chamber Music is Doris Grumbach's masterpiece. The Pushcart Press is honored to bring her novel back on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. In her extraordinary tale, Grumbach re-creates the aura of turn-of-the-century Frankfurt, Boston, and Saratoga Springs—an age when private passions were hidden below the surfaces of public selves.
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An eightieth-birthday party is cause for reflection on an extraordinary life of letters from Doris Grumbach, one of our most prized writers.
"[Grumbach's] prose shines with a serene grace."
-The New York Times
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This volume is dedicated to the most important member of the literary community: the reader. Gilbar has examined the literature of recorded history and included over 300 comments--many of them collected here for the first time. Illustrated.
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Meeting in 1929 on the brink of adolescence, four children who were raised in isolation by a widowed mother grow into young men and women whose lives are marked by incest, homosexuality, and celibacy.
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