The Cinderella story of Thea Kronborg, rescued from obscurity in the American Midwest by Cather's exquisite voice.
* The Cinderella story of Thea Kronborg, rescued from obscurity in the American Midwest by her exquisite voice * Strongly autobiographical * 'The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work' A.S. BYATT
In her writing, an almost bardic ability to hold us with stories coexists with a blazing commitment to a moral view of human distinction and human turpitude that recalls Wharton without the cynicism and Conrad without the weightiness ... Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page
