In the railroad town of Moonstone, Colorado, Thea Kronborg, daughter of a Swedish Methodist minister, is watched over by the local doctor, a railroad man and a German music teacher. Her talent takes her to piano study in Chicago, to the cliff dwellings of Arizona where she discovers what art is for, and finally to the opera stages of the world.
Cather’s 1915 portrait of the artist as a young woman, rich in prairie detail and the hard cost of genius. Download the free EPUB.