ARGONAUT BOOKS

Alexandra Bergson is the oldest child of Swedish immigrants new to the harsh untamed landscape of the American West. When her father dies, it is Alexandra who becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild land around her. Reviews Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the pageMarina WarnerThe most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around usRebecca WestTakes a knife and stabs you through the hear...Read More