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A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them. To the people of Sweet Water a fading railroad town on the Western plains Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
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