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Youth and the Bright Medusa

Willa Sibert Cather

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Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .hat the devil have you had anything to do with me for, then?"

"There's no use talking to you," said Eden walking slowly toward the door. "I've been trying to pull wires for you all afternoon, and this is what it comes to." She had expected that the tidings of a prospective call from the great man would be received very differently, and had been thinking as she came home in the stage how, as with a magic wand, she might gild Hedger's future, float him out of his dark hole on a tide of prosperity, see his name in the papers and his pictures in the windows on Fifth Avenue.

Hedger mechanically snapped the midsummer leash on Caesar's collar and they ran downstairs and hurried through Sullivan Street off toward the river. He wanted to be among rough, honest people, to get down where the big drays bumped over stone paving blocks and the men wore corduroy trowsers and kept their shirts open at the neck. He stopped for a drink in one of. . . Read More

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“Hedger melted a little. ‘My dear, I have the most expensive luxury in the world, and I am much more extravagant than Burton Ives, for I work to please nobody but myself.’
‘You mean you could make money and don’t? That you don’t try to get a public?’
‘Exactly. A public only wants what has been done ov

Eight short stories but the last four were published earlier in The Troll Garden short story collection, which I have already read. I chose not to re read them. Cather likes to write about artists, singers in particular. The stories focus mostly on the interpersonal relations between the artist and

The stories in this collection are mostly set in NYC and Boston, and they're all about artists - writers, musicians, sculptors - and their relationship to society. There are stories about glitter, about inspiration, and about expectations. They are all beautifully written.

I read the first three stories in the collection and set it down, feeling that I was reading the same story (somewhat at least) three times. After letting it sit, I picked it up, read the remaining stories, and decided that what I was reading was a set of variations on a theme. The theme was the con

If you care for 20thC American Lit, you love Willa Cather. She breaks hearts in a few sentences. Cather tops any American Lit List with Edith Wharton and Scott Fitzgerald. Who else is there on top 20th tier? In spare, concise style she digs into emotions and dreams.

This fine collection includes 'Pa

I reread Cather's short stories every few years. She has a radiant, powerful punch for me which few writers share. "A Wagner Matinee" is brilliant. "Coming, Aphrodite" would make a stunning movie.

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