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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	1994
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
ISBN:	9780140187755
EAN-Code:	9780140187755
Verlag:	Penguin Publishing Group
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	The Great Plains Trilogy
Dimensionen:	H 200 mm / B 129 mm / D 19 mm
Gewicht:	179 gr
Seiten:	256
Bewertung:	Titel bewerten / Meinung schreiben

Inhalt:

The land belongs to the future... that's the way it seems to me....I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier -- and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself. At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.