![]() ![]() O podcast O books O episodes about hard-scrabble immigrants eking out an existence on tough Nebraska land. Īt 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. Discover Overdue Ep 582 - O Pioneers by Willa Cather. ![]() When her father dies, it is she who becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild overgrown soil that surrounds her, nurturing it until, finally, it rewards her with a richness beyond measure. An original, determined child, she is driven by two forces: her fierce protective love for her younger brother and a deep love of the beautiful country she has come to regard as her own. May it live forever’ NEW YORKERĪlexandra Bergson is the eldest child of a Swedish immigrant family newly arrived in the harsh untamed landscape of the American West. ‘She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers’ OBSERVER ‘Cather allows a glimpse into the depths of emotion that lie beneath this deceptively simple surface’ GUARDIAN ![]()
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