The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather`s strongest heroine at its heart Jim & Antonia meets as children in the wide open plains of Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century. Jim leaves for college & a career in the east, while Antonia stays at home, dedicating herself to her farm & family. As the years roll by, Jim will come to view Antonia as the embodiment of the prairie itself
- tough, spirited & enduring, despite the hardness & loneliness of pioneer life. Willa Cather`s beautiful novel is a celebration of the Nebraskan prairie she loved she much, & a powerful depiction of a pivotal era in the making of America.