My Antonia: Introduction By Jane Smiley (Vintage Classics)

This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa CatherÆs masterpiece features a new introduction by Pulitzer Prizeûwinning novelist Jane Smiley. In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose calm, undemonstrative strength and robust high spirits make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. ?ntonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrant parents struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow ?ntonia from farm to town as she survives hardships both natural and human, from poverty to a failed romanceùand not only survives, but triumphs.

• | Author: Willa Cather
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: Mar 06, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0525562869
• | ISBN-13: 9780525562863