O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather
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Author: Willa CatherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-12-01
ISBN: 0679743626
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Vintage
Summary of O Pioneers! (Vintage Classics)
One of America?s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel?the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America?s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather?s novel is a uniquely American epic.Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father?s farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cather?s great heroines?all of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cather?s books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: ?The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.?
Willa Cather, perhaps more than any other American writer, was able to re-create the real drama of the pioneers, capturing for later generations a time, a place, and a spirit that has become part of our national heritage.
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