In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one the most thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and failed romance, she triumphs with high spirits.
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