It was so beautifully written that even when tragedy strikes, I was strangley affected, but not overcome with remorse. It was an interesting depiction of pioneer life, but really much more about life than about the heroic struggles we're used to reading. I was expecting a rather dry historical read, and instead found a rather sweet old fashioned romance set in the early days of Nebraska. I bought it in a small rural bookstore in Red Cloud, Nebraska, Willa Cather's home town. " good character development, just too slow in development.This would have been a better short story. Truly wonderful piece of American Literature. " A book that should be taught with the likes of Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises and McTeague and The Rise of Silas Lapham and Huckleberry Finn. " Oh Willa Cather and your old world weirdos! Great stuff! " - Alise,
Not so! In general, though, I still enjoyed the book.
As a Scandinavian-American, I thought she equated my ethnicity with shallow and boring. " The writing is as methodical as her main character. " I preferred Giants in the Earth over this book, but still interesting. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.It made me feel lazy that all I did was read all day! Anyway, it was a fantastic book." At one point, she says something about how the only way to be happy is to work really hard. I admire the way Alexandra calmly accepts the way life is and continues to struggle and earn happiness and abundance for herself and her family. So much of the book is caught up in the eminence of the land and the way it rules people's lives. Reading it gave me the same steady, peaceful feeling that sitting outside under a tree does. It reminded me a lot of My Antonia, mostly because of the beauty of the writing. Described upon publication in the New York Times as "American in the best sense of the word," O Pioneers! celebrates the men and women who struggled to build a nation that is both compelling and contradictory. Above all, it champions the belief that hard work is the surest road to personal fulfillment. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father's patch of raw, wind-blasted prairie into a highly profitable business.Ī gripping saga of love, murder, greed, failure, and triumph, O Pioneers! vividly portrays the hardships of prairie life. "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm in Nebraska.
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