Penguin Books Ltd The Song Of The Lark

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young womanThea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice.Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist.But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past.At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist. 'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' Helen Dunmore'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A.S. Byatt'Lingers long in the memory' Joyce Carol Oates