The professor's house
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Format
Book
Edition
Vintage classics ed.
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
CATHER Will
1 available
CATHER Will
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Edition
Vintage classics ed.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
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The professor's house was published in 1925, when she was fifty-two. At the time she was an author with a worldwide reputation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of ours. Reaching the top of her profession had produced a letdown, and she later wrote that around the time she won the Pulitzer she had felt that for her the world had broken in two. The situation of the professor in this novel reflects the troubled time in Cather's own life. Behind this story of Godfrey St. Peter, a man who, despite his successes, has at mid-career experienced a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce story of how he decides to continue living despite his disappointment. Sandwiched between St. Peter's stories is the thrilling tale of his one brilliant student, Tom Outland, who discovers the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde. Profound and disturbing, The professor's house has taken its place as one of its author's most important works.