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Book Resume
for My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Professional book information and credentials for My Ántonia.
- School Library Journal:
- Grades 7 and up
- TeachingBooks:*
- Grades 9-12
- Word Count:
- 79,947
- Lexile Level:
- 1010L
- ATOS Reading Level:
- 6.9
- Genre:
- Historical Fiction
- Year Published:
- 1918
13 Subject Headings
The following 13 subject headings were determined by the U.S. Library of Congress and the Book Industry Study Group (BISAC) to reveal themes from the content of this book (My Ántonia).
- Women pioneers--Fiction
- Nebraska--Fiction
- Farmers' spouses--Fiction
- Czech Americans--Fiction
- Married women--Fiction
- Fiction | Classics
- Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction
- Women immigrants--Fiction
- Farm life--Nebraska--Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life--Nebraska--Fiction
- Friendship--Fiction
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. My Ántonia
- Farm life--Fiction
3 Full Professional Reviews
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From Publisher's Weekly
February 24, 2014
This audio edition of Cather's novel and final book in the author's prairie trilogy is adequately narrated by Mondelli. Following the death of his parents, Jim Burden was sent to Black Hawk, Neb., to live with grandparents. It was in Black Hawk that he met the great and enduring love of his life, the bohemian Ántonia. Years later, lawyer Jim returns to Black Hawk, where he revisits the past and witnesses how both their lives have changed. Mondelli's reading will likely fail to delight Cather fans. While his pacing, tone, and pronunciation are workmanlike, they do little to enliven the author's text. Similarly, the voices he lends the book's characters are distinct and sufficient, but nothing more. Overall, listeners will likely feel that the narrator could have done more to bring this classic novel to life.
From School Library Journal
March 1, 2004
Gr 7 Up-In Jim Burden's accounting of his life with, and without, Antonia Shimerda, listeners are transported to the hardscrabble Nebraska prairie and the rural immigrant experience. When Jim first sees the Shimerda family, immigrants from Bohemia, disembarking from the same train that is taking him West to live with his grandparents, he has no idea the impact they will have on his life. Nostalgically, he remembers the good and bad times they had on their respective farms and creates his portrait of Antonia, an independent and tough survivor. The brief biography of author Willa Cather at the beginning of the CD explains how her life mirrors Antonia's life in many ways, helping listeners understand the context of the story. Patrick Lawlor's rich, fluid voice lends an air of sophistication to Burden, reinforcing the class structure inherent at the beginning of the 20th century. Lawlor's attempts to create voices for the characters often falls flat. Since the novel is Burden's reminiscence, it would have been better told in Burden's voice alone. Since My Antonia continues to be a staple in many English curriculums, this is a good audiobook for schools and public libraries to have available.-Lynn Evarts, Sauk Prairie High School, Prairie du Sac, WA
Copyright 2004 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
From AudioFile Magazine
Yarman's diction is very precise and measured. Both the pace and the articulate style make this version an excellent choice for ESL programs. R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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