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O Pioneer
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010311
Author:Reviewed by Philip Kennicott
WILLA CATHER
The Writer and Her World
By Janis P. Stout
Univ. Press of Virginia. 381 pp. $35.95
Most Americans who have read Willa Cather probably did so once, in high school and under duress, when some well-meaning teacher force- fed them O Pioneers! or My Antonia. And for these readers, unless they were extraordinarily wise for their age, or returned to Cather's work later in life, her fiction remains disfigured by adolescent boredom: It is spinsterish, long on character and landscape, short on plot and sex. She is assigned as middle-school fodder because she is supposed to be ...
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