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A Lost Lady
Classic fiction
A Lost Lady
As a boy in a Nebraska railroad town, Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the gracious young wife of an aging pioneer whose home represents an earlier Western ideal. Financial decline and Marian's private choices gradually complicate the image Niel has built around her. His disappointment reveals as much about his need for a symbol as it does about the vulnerable woman he cannot fully understand. Brief, elegant, and elegiac, this novel suits a late-summer evening for readers interested in fading frontier culture, unreliable idealization, social change, and the moment admiration must make room for a more difficult human truth.
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Infidelity and extramarital affairs; coercive/controlling marriage and domestic intimidation; sexual harassment and unwanted advances; alcohol use; death and grief; class prejudice and social decline.
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