Book Four: MY ANTONIA

My Antonia by Willa Cather, published in 1918.

TTR: aprrx. a week, but in actual hours, about four. Started 1/15/13 and Finished 1/22/13.

Comments:

This is probably one of Cather's more famous works, and if you're a big fan of works like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and/or any of the Transcendentalists such as A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, then this novel is full of lovely little landscapes/descriptions that you will love.

Cather works with many micro texts within her larger frame narrative, creating the fictional/literary equivalent of something that fascinates people--especially math and science geeks: a fractal. A story within a story within a story, and all of them focused on one theme: migration.

This book is a quick read and written simply, however there are a plethora of meanings and what is on the surface a very straightforward narrative becomes complex in its implications.