A review by radioisasoundsalvation
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

4.0

I love how so many of Cather's novels are a male narrator revering a woman with so much wistfulness. This novel's leading lady doesn't come close to the lovable, proud Antonia of My Antonia, however. A Lost Lady is a study of a dynamic between an ambitious, solemn young man adoring from both near and a far an aristocratic society woman, whose pathetic collapse mirrors the fall of their town's economy and future. Mrs. Forrester's downfall is comparable to that of Madame Bovary, only slightly more dignified and self-possessed of a woman.