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Man, I love this book. I tried reading it once before, 10 or 15 years ago, and let the "frame" stand in the way. (To be fair, it's pretty lame—as most frames are.) So glad I gave it another shot, though, and got past that this time.
Cather's writing here is on a par with O Pioneers!. She fleshes out her characters and their relationships fully, from the inside. Realist writing is often restrained by Chekhov's insistence on "removing everything that has no relevance to the story." Cather's realism ...more
Cather's writing here is on a par with O Pioneers!. She fleshes out her characters and their relationships fully, from the inside. Realist writing is often restrained by Chekhov's insistence on "removing everything that has no relevance to the story." Cather's realism ...more
This book, framed as the city-lawyer-narrator's nostalgic telling of memories of his boyhood and youth on the Nebraska plains, with a focus on his relationship with a slightly older Bohemian immigrant neighbor, is richly written. The descriptions of the landscape are tremendous. It is a four, not five-star book for me because 1) Ántonia is too idealized to be a real character, and it seems that she could have been a vibrant, wonderful real person if Cather had allowed her to be and 2) there are
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My Antonia by Willa Cather
I had read this years ago and utterly forgotten it. So glad I reread although I am hesitant to reread except for remembered favorites like Middlemarch or Pride and Prejudice or Mrs. Dalloway. There are so many books and so little time. Any, I read it for book club, the book club that Larry and I've been in for forty years now. All seven of us loved it. The writing about the country side and the thrill of everything for the child, Jim.
He loved the snow, the sky, the gra ...more
I had read this years ago and utterly forgotten it. So glad I reread although I am hesitant to reread except for remembered favorites like Middlemarch or Pride and Prejudice or Mrs. Dalloway. There are so many books and so little time. Any, I read it for book club, the book club that Larry and I've been in for forty years now. All seven of us loved it. The writing about the country side and the thrill of everything for the child, Jim.
He loved the snow, the sky, the gra ...more
It's a beautifully written work.
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