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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
I am trying to read all of Willa Cather's novels this year and so far, so good. The story of Alexandra Bergson running the farm her father left her was so interesting especially in the description of the land and weather. Cather really places you in this hard situation which required strength of many types. Physical as well as mental fortitude was required to settle the west and Alexandra possessed more of that than her brothers. She is mostly alone, although surrounded by others, but eventually she comes to a personal peace with her decisions and her life.
I reread this for Willa Cather book group and I loved it more than the previous time I read it. The first in her Great Palins trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark and My Antonia, it shows Cather's strength as a writer and how she made the land, the economy and the people of the Great Plains worthy of our attention, even over a hundred years later.
I reread this for Willa Cather book group and I loved it more than the previous time I read it. The first in her Great Palins trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark and My Antonia, it shows Cather's strength as a writer and how she made the land, the economy and the people of the Great Plains worthy of our attention, even over a hundred years later.