One Hundred Best American Novels

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I enjoyed My Antonia when I read it as a young teenager. It seemed a more adult follow-up to the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Don't know how it would seem to me if I was approaching it for the first time now.

Laura


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>From: alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 31, 2014 10:50 AM
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: One Hundred Best American Novels
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>I guess it depends on why one elects to read Cather. The trilogy is
>still there, in book stores, on Midwestern and Mountain State
>bookshelves, where, foreigner tourists and domestic ones take her up
>with Cowboy and Indian fictions and poetry, Pioneer, and Western
>stuff,   though I suspect the short stories  would provide quite
>enough of her themes and style for a reader looking to get her down
>with a spoonful of honey.  That is, taken in her context, before the
>Great Depression, she pens a fine American short tale.
>
>On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Am I crazy or is reading Willa Cather literally impossible in this day and age?
>>
>> Based on numerous name-drops by Garrison Keillor, God help me, I've
>> tried. But I can't. I just can NOT read her books to the end.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:30 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
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