My Ántonia (The Great Plains Trilogy) - Softcover

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140187642 ISBN 13: 9780140187649

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc, 1994

Synopsis

"The best thing I've done is "My Á ntonia,"" recalled Willa Cather. "I feel I've made a contribution to American letters with that book."

An unconventional novel of prairie life, "My Á ntonia" tells the story of a remarkable woman whose strength and passion epitomize the pioneer spirit. ´ Antonia Shimerda returns to Black Hawk, Nebraska, to made a fresh start after eloping with a railway conductor following the tragic death of her father. Accustomed to living in a sod house and toiling alongside the men in the fields, she is unprepared for the lecherous reaction her lush sensuality provokes when she moves to the city. Despite betrayal and crushing opposition, Antonia steadfastly pursues her quest for happiness -- a moving struggle that mirrors the quiet drama of the American landscape.

"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as "My Á ntonia."" --H.L. Mencken

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Review:

"A book for our times . . . My Ántonia becomes an education in what it means to be American: to have come from elsewhere, with very little; to be mindful, amid every trapping of prosperity, of how little we once had, and were; to protect and nurture those newly arrived, wherever from, as if they were our own immigrant ancestors--equally scared, equally humble, and equally determined. . . . To read My Ántonia more than a century after its publication is a reminder of the timelessness of America's bigotries. . . . But, more powerfully, Cather's novel is a story of a country that can overcome prejudice." --Bret Stephens, The New York Times

"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia." --H. L. Mencken

"The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway." --Leon Edel

Book Description:

In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140187642
• ISBN 13: 9780140187649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Murphy John J.
• Illustrator: Benda W. T.