My mortal enemy
My Mortal Enemy is a novel by American author Willa Cather. It was first published in 1926.. Cather’s eighth novel, published in 1926, traces the depressingly bleak fortunes of a number of intertwined, ill-fated people
Review by Mary Durrant
A wonderful novella which tells the story of Myra Driscoll who elopes with the impoverished Oswald Henshawe. We meet them twenty-five years later living in poverty.
'People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. We Were...A man and a woman draw apart from that long embrace and see what they have done to each other. Perhaps I can't forgive him for the harm I did him. Perhaps that's it'
It has been suggested that the novel 'represents the bitter apotheosis of the issues of exile Cather worked on all of her life
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