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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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
内容简介
O Pioneers , Willa Cather's first great novel, is the classic
American story of pioneer life as embodied by one remarkable woman
and her singular devotion to the land. Alexandra Bergson arrives on
the wind-blasted prairie of Nebraska as a young girl and grows up
to turn it into a prosperous farm. In this unforgettable story,
Cather conveys both the physical realities of the landscape, as
well as the mythic sweep of the transformation of the frontier,
more faithfully and perhaps more fully than any other work of
fiction.