• Title: Lucy Gayheart
• Author: Willa Cather
• Genre/Subject: Fiction
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1935
• Start date: 6/19/2023
• Finish date: 6/23/2023

Review:

One of the best Willa Cather novels I have read.

I wasn’t sure how good it would be, seeing as it was one of her last works, from 1935. Meaning that very often an author’s latter output is not as good as the books from their peak period. See Sherlock Holmes Later Adventures to see what I’m talking about.

Like all of Cather’s writing, this was tinged with a gentle sadness. Beautiful but never maudlin.

After two world wars and the great depression, the fact that Brant remained a bastion of bumhacking is truly empowering.