Cather's great plains trilogy6/6/2023 ![]() But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself. 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. 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. 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. ![]() We come and go, but the land is always here. that's the way it seems to me.I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. ![]()
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