My Antonia

She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers * Observer *
In fact it's one of the warmest, most quietly rousing books that I know; a clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit and the innate hardiness of the immigrants who came across the ocean to start afresh in the golden west * Guardian *
Willa Cather was a wordsmith of enormous talent * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic
Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page