My Antonia

Zusatztext Cather makes a world which is burningly alive! sometimes lovely! often tragic Informationen zum Autor A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Willa Cather's work was profoundly influenced by her upbringing in rural Nebraska. During her young adulthood, Cather proved herself intelligent and capable, initially training for a career as a medical doctor, but discovered a love of and talent for writing while attending the University of Nebraska. Following graduation, Cather worked as a journalist for several women's magazines before becoming a high school teacher. A work experience as an editor at McClure's provided Cather with her first chance to publish as the magazine serialised her first novel. Cather died in 1947 at the age of seventy-three. Klappentext Lush descriptions of the rolling Nebraska grasslands interweave with the blossoming of a woman in the early days of the 20th century, in an epic novel that chronicles America's past. Includes a new Introduction. Reissue. Zusammenfassung In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Willa Cather
• Assisted by: A.S. Byatt (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.09.2006
• EAN: 9781844083749
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-374-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary