My Mortal Enemy

'People can be lovers and enemies at the same time. We were...' Through the eyes of a young girl, Nellie, we view the life of Myra, a legend in the Southern town where both were born. Myra has romantically abandoned the luxury she was born into to elope with the impoverished Oswald Henshawe. Twenty-five years later, Nellie is dazzled when she meets them living in the elegant poverty of an apartment frequented by singers, actors, poets - in the heart of the artistic community of old New York. But this shabby gentility gives way to real poverty in a jerrybuilt West Coast hotel, and the high purpose of Myra's life - love itself - is revealed to be the enemy within. A finely-wrought study of the great rewards and punishments love brings, MY MORTAL ENEMY is an exquisite example of Willa Cather's art.

ISBN 1844084485   Weight (grammes) 151 ISBN13 9781844084487 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Little, Brown Book Group   Previous ISBN 9780860682462 Imprint Virago Press Ltd   Height (mm) 127 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 203 Publication date 07 Dec 2006   Spine width (mm) 7 Pages 132   Academic level General

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