num_pages: 258
description: O Pioneers! was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. 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. 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. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.
language: English
title: O Pioneers!
titlecomplete: O Pioneers! (Virago Modern Classics)
characters: Alexandra Bergson, Evesham Giyt
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Westerns, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 52302
places: Nebraska
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: One Book One Nebraska
publisher: Virago