“I didn’t want that more traditional kind of arc of childhood to a certain stance of wisdom or resignation or triumph. I wanted—partly because I felt with Negroland, and very much with this book—that ability to change persona, change my position, to acknowledge that one was performing at times, and that one played many, many […]
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
The Song of the Lark tells a tale of struggle and courage in which a determined protagonist forges a self equal to a wild and outsized land. However, the heroic figure at the center of this story is not a woodsman or an explorer as in most frontier novels. Thea Kronborg is a young girl growing up in a small Colorado town with a "secret something" inside her, and what she must conquer is not a people or a land, but an art. She dreams big and gets what she dreams of: a brilliant success as a Wagnerian soprano.
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The Song of the Lark tells a tale of struggle and courage in which a determined protagonist forges a self equal to a wild and outsized land. However, the heroic figure at the center of this story is not a woodsman or an explorer as in most frontier novels. Thea Kronborg is a young girl growing up in a small Colorado town with a "secret something" inside her, and what she must conquer is not a people or a land, but an art. She dreams big and gets what she dreams of: a brilliant success as a Wagnerian soprano.
The Song of the Lark (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
The Song of the Lark tells a tale of struggle and courage in which a determined protagonist forges a self equal to a wild and outsized land. However, the heroic figure at the center of this story is not a woodsman or an explorer as in most frontier novels. Thea Kronborg is a young girl growing up in a small Colorado town with a "secret something" inside her, and what she must conquer is not a people or a land, but an art. She dreams big and gets what she dreams of: a brilliant success as a Wagnerian soprano.
The Song of the Lark tells a tale of struggle and courage in which a determined protagonist forges a self equal to a wild and outsized land. However, the heroic figure at the center of this story is not a woodsman or an explorer as in most frontier novels. Thea Kronborg is a young girl growing up in a small Colorado town with a "secret something" inside her, and what she must conquer is not a people or a land, but an art. She dreams big and gets what she dreams of: a brilliant success as a Wagnerian soprano.
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ISBN-13: | 9781411466838 |
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Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
Publication date: | 03/13/2012 |
Series: | Barnes & Noble Digital Library |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 352 |
File size: | 669 KB |
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