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050			_aFIC .C38 1994
100			_aCather, Willa. _eauthor
245		0	_aMy Ántonia / _cWilla Cather
250			_aFirst Vintage Classics Edition.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _cc1994
300			_a272 pages ; _c21 cm.
505			_aIntroduction -- 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.
520			_aIn 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."
650			_aAMERICAN FICTION -- ROMANCE
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