Delightful!

       Willa Cather, 1873-1947, was the author of many books. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One Of  Ours. Peter argues that authors often write an excellent book but don't win the Pulitzer. Then, they get the prize for the next book they publish, thought it may not be the author's best. Perhaps that was the case with Cather.

    One Of Ours is an excellent book but many persons think it's not her best. Though I haven't read all of her books, I would agree with popular opinion that My Antonia is the best and it's the best of those I've read. Like so many of her books, it's a pioneer story set in Nebraska. She moved, with her family, from Virginia to Red Cloud, Nebraska when she was 10, thus in 1883. She lived the pioneer experience about which she writes. 

    Antonia, is the child of Bohemian parents who moved to Nebraska, from Europe, to farm. A neighbor boy, Jim, arrived at the same time. He was an orphan who was sent to Blackhawk (the town in the story) to live with his grandparents.  Three years younger than Antonia they were inseparable inhabitants of neighboring farms until he moved, with his grandparents, to town. Antonia's story is told through his eyes.

    This was a second reading for me. It's been thirty? years since I read it and it was as engaging and delightful as it was the first time. If it has been awhile since you read it, or if you haven't ever, you'll likely not be disappointed with it.

Takk for alt,

Al