"The time will come when she will be ranked above Hemingway." --Leon EdelIn this
powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of
her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a
provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider
world. 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. It is in
the solitude of a tiny rock chamber high in the