The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather
by Willa Cather 
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In these six stories, Willa Cather vividly captures the character of early 1900s Pittsburgh, a place she called home during her formative years as a writer. She depicts a city a where culture is beginning to take root, rising from the harsh industrial landscape. Her characters, ranging from a skinny young usher boy to an elderly doctor, seek meaning in music, art, and human connection. Through them, Cather explores the dual nature of art as a higher purpose. Art tugs at the edges of human show more emotion, inspiring a sense of wonder, but also instilling an insatiable longing for beauty in a disorderly world. Cather deftly captures transient moments of brilliance and pain to convince us of this fundamental truth. show lessTags
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Uncle Valentine was sad. He comes home after years away after a scandal caused his marriage to fail. He explains it to his friend Charlotte. Then his ex-wife returns and does something I consider to be so nasty and painful to Valentine. Though she is only talked about, I did not like the ex-wife.
I cannot remember the names of the other three stories. I did feel bad for the man who was called home from Paris as his group of friends learn about their neighbor. I also felt sad for the school master who retires realizing he did not take risks and lived a staid life knowing his students would be working in the steel mills after graduation.
Willa Cather's writing was phenomenal. Her descriptions put you in the person's shoes. You see exactly show more what she sees. You feel what the character feels. I was glad I read these. show less
I cannot remember the names of the other three stories. I did feel bad for the man who was called home from Paris as his group of friends learn about their neighbor. I also felt sad for the school master who retires realizing he did not take risks and lived a staid life knowing his students would be working in the steel mills after graduation.
Willa Cather's writing was phenomenal. Her descriptions put you in the person's shoes. You see exactly show more what she sees. You feel what the character feels. I was glad I read these. show less
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Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a journalist and teacher while beginning her writing career. In 1906, show more Cather moved to New York to become a leading magazine editor at McClure's Magazine before turning to writing full-time. She continued her education, receiving her doctorate of letters from the University of Nebraska in 1917, and honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton. Cather wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, winning awards including the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, One of Ours, about a Nebraska farm boy during World War I. She also wrote The Professor's House, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lucy Gayheart. Some of Cather's novels were made into movies, the most well-known being A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck. In 1961, Willa Cather was the first woman ever voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma in 1974, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York in 1988. Cather died on April 24, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in her Madison Avenue, New York home, where she had lived for many years. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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