American Fiction, Teen Fiction - Adventure & Survival, Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, Women's Fiction, Teen Fiction - Girls & Young Women, Westerns

My Antoni

Name: My Antoni
Author: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9781599866246

by Willa Cather

Write a review

Overview

My Antonia is undoubtedly the most popular novel ever written by author Willa Cather. A book about several immigrant families who are recent arrivals to rural Nebraska. Narrator Jim Burden, develops a crush for Antonia. My Antonia is a part of a trilogy of Cather books about prairie life. My Antonia is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Willa Cather and especially for those who are discovering her writings for the first time.

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.

Synopsis

At the age of ten, Cather moved with her family from Virginia to a Nebraska ranch where she grew up among the immigrants from Europe that were homesteading on the Great Plains. My Antonia is Cather's portrait of a remembered American girlhood: her hardships and difficulties as well as her search for happiness are the themes of this novel.

About the Author, Willa Cather

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Willa Cather once famously observed, "The end is nothing; the road is all." Cather herself made the most of the road she traveled, wearing an indelible literary path studded with classic American novels from O Pioneers! to My ntonia.