My Ántonia (The Great Plains Trilogy) - Softcover

Cather, Willa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140187642 ISBN 13: 9780140187649

Verlag: Penguin Putnam Inc, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Willa Cather's masterful portrait of prairie culture, based on her own life. Against Nebraska's panoramic landscape, Cather recreates the life of an immigrant girl who becomes, in the memories of narrator Jim Burden, the epitome of strong and dignifed womanhood.[...]

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Críticas:

"A book for our times . . . My Ántonia becomes an education in what it means to be American: to have come from elsewhere, with very little; to be mindful, amid every trapping of prosperity, of how little we once had, and were; to protect and nurture those newly arrived, wherever from, as if they were our own immigrant ancestors--equally scared, equally humble, and equally determined. . . . To read My Ántonia more than a century after its publication is a reminder of the timelessness of America's bigotries. . . . But, more powerfully, Cather's novel is a story of a country that can overcome prejudice." --Bret Stephens, The New York Times

"No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia." --H. L. Mencken

"The time will come when Willa Cather will be ranked above Hemingway." --Leon Edel

Reseña del editor:

The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation immigrants.

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• Verlag: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140187642
• ISBN 13: 9780140187649
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Murphy John J.
• Zeichner: Benda W. T.