I re-read "My Mortal Enemy" for the umpteenth time today,
It's getting so I have to hide my copy. Once I pick it up I cannot put it down
Showing posts with label My Mortal Enemy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Mortal Enemy. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2014
SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 220 COPIES SIGNED BY WILLA CATHER.
"My Mortal Enemy is actually a nouvelle, only about twenty thousand words in length, the shortest of all her works published separately... It is also the most unfurnished of her novels, a remarkable example of the novel démeublé, but it was properly published by itself and not as part of a collection. It is a complete entity and an almost perfect work of art" (Woodress, Willa Cather: A Literary Life).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Original cloth backed boards; custom slipcase (original slipcase lacking). A FINE COPY.
Price: $850.00
- See more at: http://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/655/willa-cather/my-mortal-enemy
And let me be perfectly clear here. Yes I will sleep with you for this
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Revisiting
I spent this weekend traveling to Portland, ME for a wedding. Any travel of any kind requires that I bring and read my copy of My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather, one of my particularly favorite authors, as I've mentioned before.
My Mortal enemy is one of her lesser known novellas, at 122 tight pages it reads more like a well crafted longer short story, immensely suited for short plane, bus or train trips. Agreeably readable and enigmatically fathomable it can be entertainingly read on both journeys to and from destinations. Not until recently did I discover the equally fascinating history to the story which makes for more than enough drama on it's own before Cather so deftly took her hand to it.
It's a book I have to hide on my shelves, should I come upon it while dusting I am compelled to open and read it .And is most probably the source of why I've never been fond of carved amethysts.
Find yourself a copy (I prefer the hardcover illustrated edition) and let me know what you think!
Washington Square Park, New York City, 1924, left to right: S. S. McClure, Willa Cather, Ida Tarbell, and Will Irvin.
My Mortal enemy is one of her lesser known novellas, at 122 tight pages it reads more like a well crafted longer short story, immensely suited for short plane, bus or train trips. Agreeably readable and enigmatically fathomable it can be entertainingly read on both journeys to and from destinations. Not until recently did I discover the equally fascinating history to the story which makes for more than enough drama on it's own before Cather so deftly took her hand to it.
It's a book I have to hide on my shelves, should I come upon it while dusting I am compelled to open and read it .And is most probably the source of why I've never been fond of carved amethysts.
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