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Conscia della tensione fra vecchio e nuovo mondo, che tanto aveva sconvolto la vita dei migranti europei negli Stati Uniti tra Otto e Novecento, Willa Cather scelse di raccontare l'ombra e le contraddizioni della frontiera attraverso semplici ed eroiche figure femminili.
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Alexandra Bergson at a young age , has to take care of her family and farm, in Nebraska, with the untimely death of their father John, he wished his oldest child, ( and smartest ) to guide the poor immigrants from Sweden in the 1880's, everyone agrees at first, struggling on the harsh prairie, are a Leggi tutto
Can we even imagine what it was like for the early homesteaders and pioneers, arriving (most likely) from somewhere in Europe in a last-ditch effort to make something out of nothing? There it is before them – a vast, lonely, rolling plain of earth meeting a vast, lonely, infinite sky. Where does one Leggi tutto
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