TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cather, Willa.
TI  - My Ántonia
SN  - 9780679741879
AV  - FIC .C38 1994 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - AMERICAN FICTION -- ROMANCE
N1  - Introduction -- Book I: The shimerdas -- Book II. The hired girls -- Book III. Lena lingard -- Book IV. The pioneer woman's story -- Book V. Cuzak's boys
N2  - In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country.    Antonia Shimerda is the daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling with the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow Antonia from farm to town and through hardships both natural and human, surviving everything from poverty to a failed romance--and not only surviving, but triumphing. In the end, Antonia is exactly what Burden says she is: a woman who "had that something which fires the imagination, [a woman who] could stop . . . one's breath for a moment by a look or a gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things."
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