This one tugged at my heart. All of the ingredients did: the hard life on new countries, the stubbornness of immigrants, the strong girl and all the quirky people you may find around her, the small town tragedies. Most of all this love for the land, and the strange, difficult to explain ties one...
Alexandra is incredible. She was strong, and suffered at the hands of all of her brothers. The story was beautiful, even in it's sadness. The writing was poetic and kept me reading.I loved the ending. The scene where Alexandra realizes it was Jesus who she had been dreaming about for much of her lif...
Willa Cather has come highly recommended, but I'm only now getting around to reading her work for the first time. I see why she was recommended. The writing is my style: poetic and intelligent without losing focus on the story. I love that. I think I'll be very pleased reading her work in the years ...
Having tried and failed to read My Antonia a couple of times, I didn't expect to like this book a lot. So I was shocked when I started to love it. Cather's prose is tight, and her characters are gracefully drawn. Even an eccentric like Ivar doesn't get the Faulkner treatment; these people appear in ...
I really wasn't expecting a lot of the things that happened in this book, although I should know by now to expect the unexpected! I really hated the way her brothers talked to Alexandra when Carl came to visit. She was the one who'd made the farm better than it had been, over their objections and th...
I know a few readers who don't like Willa Cather. To these people I say, You are wrong. The writing is absolutely beautiful. There were so many passages I underlined and highlighted. Cather writes about prairie life so vividly, and talks about the land as if it were another one of the characters. ...
Willa Cather is awesome! This is the first of her prairie trilogy. I'd previously read the third one, My Antonia. This is the story of a young woman, Alexandra, who takes over management of her father's farm in western Nebraska, in preference to her two older brothers. She makes a success of it, but...
The ending made this novel for me! I didn't realize how bleak the novel was until the ending, which only made me appreciate the story telling even more, as it was present the whole time through - just placed in surreptitiously to not overwhelm.I actually prefer O Pioneers! over My Antonia, mainly be...
Set at the end of the nineteenth century, O Pioneers tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, a Swedish immigrant to Nebraska, as well as that of her family and the community that surrounds them. It depicts their struggle to make a living in land that had never before been broken to the plough.There is...
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