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A review by sydsnot71
My Antonia by Willa Cather
5.0
I have to confess to have barely heard of Willa Cather, but I came to this book courtesy of the excellent Backlisted Podcast.*
It's a marvellous book. Full of beautiful, clear writing - especially about landscape. It's full of life and living. The highlights I made - which I think you'll be able to see when I make them public - are an indication of its joys.
There are two particularly fine scenes for me: when Burden and Lena go to the theatre in Lincoln to see La Dame aux Camélias and the impact that has on them both and late in the book when Burden meets Ántonia and her children.
It's well-worth reading. In other hands it might have been hideously melodramatic, but Cather's style keeps things under control without losing the emotional impact. I'm not going to say much else because you should read the book.
*I recommend Backlisted if you like reading btw. It regularly introduces me to interesting writers/books.
It's a marvellous book. Full of beautiful, clear writing - especially about landscape. It's full of life and living. The highlights I made - which I think you'll be able to see when I make them public - are an indication of its joys.
There are two particularly fine scenes for me: when Burden and Lena go to the theatre in Lincoln to see La Dame aux Camélias and the impact that has on them both and late in the book when Burden meets Ántonia and her children.
It's well-worth reading. In other hands it might have been hideously melodramatic, but Cather's style keeps things under control without losing the emotional impact. I'm not going to say much else because you should read the book.
*I recommend Backlisted if you like reading btw. It regularly introduces me to interesting writers/books.