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Willa Cather

Start date: July 1, 2020

Finish date: July 31, 2020

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Mar 16, 2017 Sara rated it liked it

Shelves: pulitzer-prize-winners, world-war-1

3.5 stars, rounded up.

The first half of this novel is Willa Cather in her element. She knows the plains and its people, and as long as Claude was on the farm and in his small town, I found each word true and compelling. The second half of the novel, which takes place in France during WWI, does not ring as true and loses its grip on the characters somewhat. The horrors of the trenches of WWI are well-known and any idea that a man could feel happy to be there seems far-fetched. Happy to go, yes, h ...more

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Jul 04, 2014 Christine PNW rated it really liked it

Read across America - Nebraska.

Great War read.

#readwomen2014

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Jul 24, 2020 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned

I read the 'plains' stories when I was way too young, 12-14 or so. I never thought about Cather again; until I started rereading the plains novels and finding them wonderful a decade or so again. Those strong women, you know? The, would you believe it, I learned she'd written other things, that seem to be mostly forgotten today. A slightly obscure podcast got me to Death Comes for the Archbishop, a passing comment on another literary podcast got me to this book - which I'd never heard of. No str ...more

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