![]() The landscape drew me in, but it was Alexandra who captured me standing tall, unbowed in the face of society, while bending with the will of the land she loves. Together they paint a rich narrative picture of the land, and also the people of the novel who’ve come to make this landscape their own.Īs the story unfolds the land and its people become harder to separate, and the landscape permeates the thoughts, actions and dreams of the characters. What drew me into this novel from the start was the contrast between the vast and the minute wide American landscapes narrowed down to the smallest detail of a child’s dress. So it is to her, against all the conventions of the time, that he entrusts the fortune of the family and the overall running of the farm. My Antonia follows the life of Jim Burden, the book's narrator, who moves to a fictional town in Nebraska. Her most famous novels are My Antonia and One of Ours, the latter of which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Set in the vast landscape of the Nebraskan ‘Divide’ the first book of Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, follows the fortunes of the Bergson family.Īs John Bergson’s life comes to an end he recognises in his daughter Alexandra an intelligence and an all-important love of the land which his elder sons lack. Willa Cather was an American author who wrote novels about the frontier life on the Great Plains. Out of the earthy dusk." - Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Singing like the larks over the plowed fields,įlashing like a star out of the twilight ![]() ![]() ![]() Our recommendation this week, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, comes from Schools Project Worker Kate. Another Wednesday, another Read of the Week to see you through the midweek lull. ![]()
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