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The land breaks everyone who works it. She loves it anyway.
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On the wind-scoured Nebraska Divide, young Alexandra Bergson is left her family’s hard, unpromising land, and, alone among her neighbours, she believes in it. Through drought and doubt, grief and the long labour of years, her stubborn faith in the soil turns a failing homestead into a fortune, even as it costs her the ordinary happiness that others take for granted.
First published in 1913, O Pioneers! was the first of Willa Cather’s great prairie novels and the book in which she found her country and her voice. Luminous, unhurried, and deeply American, it remains one of the finest portraits we have of the immigrants who broke the plains, and of one woman’s quiet, unbreakable resilience.
A new Northlume Library edition, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus behind an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
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- Willa Cather (1873–1947)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 188 pages