The landscape drew me in, but it was Alexandra who captured me standing tall, unbowed in the face of society, while bending with the will of the land she loves. Together they paint a rich narrative picture of the land, and also the people of the novel who’ve come to make this landscape their own.Īs the story unfolds the land and its people become harder to separate, and the landscape permeates the thoughts, actions and dreams of the characters. What drew me into this novel from the start was the contrast between the vast and the minute wide American landscapes narrowed down to the smallest detail of a child’s dress. All three novels stage in Nebraska and the surrounding Great Plains territory and deal with the life there, family challenges and romance. Her breakthrough in literature were the three novels featured here in this edition, the so-called Prairie trilogy. So it is to her, against all the conventions of the time, that he entrusts the fortune of the family and the overall running of the farm. Willa Cather was the 1922 winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Set in the vast landscape of the Nebraskan ‘Divide’ the first book of Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, follows the fortunes of the Bergson family.Īs John Bergson’s life comes to an end he recognises in his daughter Alexandra an intelligence and an all-important love of the land which his elder sons lack. Out of the earthy dusk." - Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Singing like the larks over the plowed fields,įlashing like a star out of the twilight Our recommendation this week, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, comes from Schools Project Worker Kate. Another Wednesday, another Read of the Week to see you through the midweek lull.
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