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O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
I loved it. And I still don't know if what elevated it to 5 stars (like 5 stars actually means anything, it means nothing, but whatever) is my own take on this book, but I'll keep thinking for a while that it's not.
It's that kind of evenness of the plot that comes to a sudden crescendo, that when combined with a simplicity and frankness, affects me deeply. I don't want to give anything away - it's a tiny book but somehow it has a lot, a lot more at least that many of the books I have read. It also speaks - at least, as I mentioned, for me - of things I keep thinking about more and more: how the communication with others and understanding of other people is limited, and how we must keep accepting this everyday.
It's through the ancillary characters that we understand Alexandra Bergson more, of her moral frankness and simplicity, and through the environment that created her - the harsh but steadfast frontier. And it's also through the sparseness of the prose, that still manages to convey such richness of people's interior lives, that I have come to appreciate this book so much.
It's that kind of evenness of the plot that comes to a sudden crescendo, that when combined with a simplicity and frankness, affects me deeply. I don't want to give anything away - it's a tiny book but somehow it has a lot, a lot more at least that many of the books I have read. It also speaks - at least, as I mentioned, for me - of things I keep thinking about more and more: how the communication with others and understanding of other people is limited, and how we must keep accepting this everyday.
It's through the ancillary characters that we understand Alexandra Bergson more, of her moral frankness and simplicity, and through the environment that created her - the harsh but steadfast frontier. And it's also through the sparseness of the prose, that still manages to convey such richness of people's interior lives, that I have come to appreciate this book so much.