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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679731792
ISBN-139780679731795
eBay Product ID (ePID)683711
Product Key Features
Book TitleMy Mortal Enemy
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Family Life, Literary
Publication Year1990
GenreFiction
AuthorWilla Cather
Book SeriesVintage Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight4.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-050169
Dewey Edition23/eng/20221213
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisFirst published in 1926, this book is Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and oddly prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of happiness and the sanctity of the hearth., First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.