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Description:This novel is historical fiction. It is told in the voice and style of the real Lady of Yaddo, taken from correspondence, scrapbooks and records held in the Yaddo archives of the New York Public Library and from Katrina’s own literary works.Millionaire’s wife, renowned poet, hostess to the well-known in her country estate, beloved of two strong men, Katrina Trask shares her tumultuous memoir of heartache and hope in the exuberant days of the Gilded Age. Her Yaddo estate gifted as a retreat for artists has nurtured since 1926 such cultural icons as John Cheever, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Henry Roth, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, Katherine Ann Porter, Bernard Malamud, Alice Walker, Mario Puzo. Yaddo continues as America’s premier artists’ retreat and has been the inspiration for 66 Pulitzer prizes, 61 National Book Awards, 40 National Book Critics Circle Awards, a Nobel prize and notable achievements in film and music.The memoir lives on a landscape of the social and economic dichotomies of the time: revelry of racetrack and casino and Victorian sobriety; bigotry and greed and progressive reform; factory sweatshops and elite summer colonies; drumbeat of World War I and the peace of woods and water.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lady of Yaddo. The Gilded Age Memoir of Katrina Trask. To get started finding Lady of Yaddo. The Gilded Age Memoir of Katrina Trask, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 225

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: French Mountain Press

Release: 2013

ISBN: 0988412314

Description: This novel is historical fiction. It is told in the voice and style of the real Lady of Yaddo, taken from correspondence, scrapbooks and records held in the Yaddo archives of the New York Public Library and from Katrina’s own literary works.Millionaire’s wife, renowned poet, hostess to the well-known in her country estate, beloved of two strong men, Katrina Trask shares her tumultuous memoir of heartache and hope in the exuberant days of the Gilded Age. Her Yaddo estate gifted as a retreat for artists has nurtured since 1926 such cultural icons as John Cheever, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Henry Roth, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, Katherine Ann Porter, Bernard Malamud, Alice Walker, Mario Puzo. Yaddo continues as America’s premier artists’ retreat and has been the inspiration for 66 Pulitzer prizes, 61 National Book Awards, 40 National Book Critics Circle Awards, a Nobel prize and notable achievements in film and music.The memoir lives on a landscape of the social and economic dichotomies of the time: revelry of racetrack and casino and Victorian sobriety; bigotry and greed and progressive reform; factory sweatshops and elite summer colonies; drumbeat of World War I and the peace of woods and water.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lady of Yaddo. The Gilded Age Memoir of Katrina Trask. To get started finding Lady of Yaddo. The Gilded Age Memoir of Katrina Trask, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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