O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (English) Paperback Book

Description: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed itTo the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska following the death of their father. As the years pass, Alexandra rises heroically to the challenge, finding strength in the savage beauty of the land even as loneliness and personal tragedies crowd in. A rapturous work of understated lyricism, Willa Cathers 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Willa Cather was born in Virginia in 1873 and moved to Nebraska, with its wide open plains and immigrant farming communities, at the age of nine. This landscape would deeply affect her later writing. She attended university and became a journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh, and then a magazine editor in New York. Her first major novel, O Pioneers!, appeared in 1913 and was followed by two more in her prairie trilogy, The Song of the Lark and My ntonia, as well as her masterpiece Death Comes for the Archbishop. She lived with the editor Edith Lewis for thirty-nine years until her death in 1947. Review 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 WarnerThe most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us -- Rebecca WestTakes a knife and stabs you through the heart, by its joining of such ravishment with such pessimism * New Yorker * Promotional The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it. Review Text Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page Review Quote 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 The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us--Rebecca West Takes a knife and stabs you through the heart, by its joining of such ravishment with such pessimism-- New Yorker Promotional "Headline" The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it Details ISBN0241338352 Author Willa Cather Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2018 ISBN-10 0241338352 ISBN-13 9780241338353 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-08-02 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.52 Birth 1873 Death 1947 Media Book Pages 192 Language English UK Release Date 2018-08-02 Series Penguin Modern Classics Alternative 9780241338360 Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-08-19 AU Release Date 2018-08-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123800962;

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