My Antonia

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Willa Cather

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Hardback

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A beautiful hardcover gift edition of My Antonia with a gorgeous cover with an intial corrosponding to the author's surname, hand designed by type superstar Jessica Hische. C is for Cather and the one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great igration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the novel follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story.

Author Biography:

WILLA CATHER was born in Virginia in 1873 and raised on a Nebraska ranch. Known for her beautifully evocative short stories and novels about the American West, Cather became the managing editor for McClure's Magazine in 1906 and lived for forty years in New York City with her companion Edith Lewis. In 1922 Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, the story of a Western boy in World War I. In 1933 she was awarded the Prix Femina Americaine "for distinguished literary accomplishments." She died in 1947. JESSICA HISCHE is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and web designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has been named a Forbes Magazine "30 under 30" in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine's "New Visual Artists". She has designed for Wes Anderson, McSweeney's, Tiffany & Co, Penguin Books and many others. She resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn, and can otherwise be found in airplanes en route to speaking engagements.

Release date Australia

December 12th, 2012

Author

Willa Cather

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

304

Dimensions

136x199x24

ISBN-13

9780143123156

Product ID

20415949

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