Youth and the bright Medusa
No CoverEight short stories following artists, musicians, and performers as they confront desire, ambition, and the costs of pursuing art in early 20th-century America.
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Eight short stories following artists, musicians, and performers as they confront desire, ambition, and the costs of pursuing art in early 20th-century America.
Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My �ntonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting hersel...
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Romantic and sexual desire drive several stories, including affairs and passionate encounters depicted with period restraint.
One suicide by train; no graphic violence or gore.
No profanity or strong language present.
Social drinking appears occasionally in artistic circles.
Paul's Case centers on a young man's suppressed desires and identity, widely read as queer.
No religious themes present.
No magic or witchcraft depicted.
No occult or demonological content.
Explores tensions between artistic life and bourgeois society.
Suicide depicted in Paul's Case.
Emotional suffering and social alienation recur among artist characters.
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