Here she finds the courage to seize her future and to use her gifts to catch "the shining, elusive element that is life-life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose." In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self. It is in the solitude of a tiny rock chamber high in the side of an Arizona cliff-"a cleft in the heart of the world"-that Thea comes face to face with her own dreams and desires, stripped clean by the haunting purity of the ruined cliff dwellings and inspired by the whisperings of their ancient dust.
In My Ántonia, the orphaned young settler Jim Burden delivers a rhapsody that. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can't forget and from the man she can't afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not enough. The only person capable of doing justice to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is the woman who engendered it. Thea Kronberg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. As Cather describes Moonstone in The Song of the Lark: 'The main business street ran. I was able to correct errors and add details, but my record was far from complete, and it also contained its own errors. In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. My book, Willa Cather: Her Life and Art, appeared in 1970 and was based on much primary material that had not been available to Brown.
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