{"product_id":"my-antonia-american-classics-edition-a-novel-isbn-9780063481596","title":"My Antonia American Classics Edition: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s “masterpiece” (Library of America) and a National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” pick.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as \u003cem\u003eMy Ántonia\u003c\/em\u003e.”—H.L. Menken \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American classics drawn from our storied catalog. Willa Cather’s powerful, heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Ántonia had not lost the fire of life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Jim Burden’s affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited Ántonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a Foreword by Kathleen Norris\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e the award-winning poet, writer, and author of many \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling books, including \u003cem\u003eDakota: A Spiritual Geography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"My Ántonia \u003c\/em\u003eis about how travel transforms us, for better or worse. ...The vast American landscape seems to have imprinted itself on Cather’s soul and prose: Her plainspoken sentences, free of modifying flourishes, take the shape of the land itself. You can almost hear the wind beneath the words.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, Mary Morris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My \u003cem\u003eÁntonia\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eH. L. Mencken\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For the beauty of the writing, I would say that my go-to is actually \u003cem\u003eMy Antonia\u003c\/em\u003e by Willa Cather, which is a book I first read in high school and found slightly boring but beautiful, and then read again in my 20s and was just totally enraptured by and then have gone back to again and again and again as a beautiful piece of writing\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca Traister\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588026118373,"sku":"NP9780063481596","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063481596.jpg?v=1773960701","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/my-antonia-american-classics-edition-a-novel-isbn-9780063481596","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}