{"product_id":"my-mortal-enemy","title":"My Mortal Enemy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Willa Cather\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Mortal Enemy\u003c\/b\u003e is a story of seeking. When Myra Driscoll forsakes a fortune for love, eloping with the handsome and promising Oswald Hen\u003csup\u003e­\u003c\/sup\u003eshawe to New York, she certainly makes a name for herself in the records of family legend and lore. Yet the truth of the matter is not quite so exciting as the legend would have it: her life, like her marriage, is subject to disillusionment, disappointment, and the sobering dosages of reality. And in this, she is still seeking. From the bright lights and fast parties of Madison Square to the sand and surf of the Pacific coast, Myra Henshawe reckons with the kind of woman which life—and her own choices—have made her: a paradox of strength and weakness, generosity and tyranny, wit and wickedness, who hates life for its defeats and loves it for its absurdities. In this, she is a thoroughly “unmodern” Myra, in the words of the Catholic priest, Father Fay, who tends her in her old age and finds in her tempestuous character a mysterious likeness to one of his Church’s early saints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe eighth of Cather’s dozen novels, first published in 1926, \u003ci\u003eMy Mortal Enemy \u003c\/i\u003eis a finely worked chronicle of one woman’s contention with love—a contention in which the last enemy to be destroyed is death itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWhy must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy?\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilla Cather \u003c\/b\u003e(1873–1947) was an American writer and woman of letters whose fiction grew out of the land under her feet. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers! \u003c\/i\u003e(1913), \u003ci\u003eMy Ántonia \u003c\/i\u003e(1918), and \u003ci\u003eMy Mortal Enemy \u003c\/i\u003e(1926). Her novel, \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop \u003c\/i\u003e(1927), has been acclaimed as “illustrative of the wonder and beauty of Catholic mys­teries,” and is available from Cluny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 114pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954895\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48869324914907,"sku":"978-1-68595-489-5","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product261.jpg?v=1781278714","url":"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/my-mortal-enemy","provider":"Cluny Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}