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My Antonia' is one man's attempt to commit to paper the beautiful, wild eyed immigrant girl who has haunted him all his life. For Jim Burden, Antonia Shimerdas symbolises all the extraordinary contradicitions of the American West: Its harshness, its untamed beauty, its blazing summers and bitter winters, its endless possibilities and vast unconquerable horizons. This is his attempt to immortalise her, to posses her as he never could in life.
Widely regarded as Willa Carter's finest novel, My Antonia, is a moving and powerful description of love and a timeless portrait of a land and its people.
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She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers (OBSERVER)
Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page (MARINA WARNER)
Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic (HELEN DUNMORE)
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In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0860681254
- ISBN 13 9780860681250
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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