Description: Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life. In One of Ours Willa Cather explores the destiny of a grandchild of the pioneers, a young Nebraskan whose yearnings impel him toward a frontier bloodier and more distant than the one that vanished before his birth. In doing so, she creates a canny and extraordinarily vital portrait of an American psyche at once skeptical and romantic, restless and heroic. WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.
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EAN: 9780679737445
UPC: 9780679737445
ISBN: 9780679737445
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Book Title: One of Ours
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: War & Military, Small Town & Rural, Literary
Publication Year: 1991
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 11 Oz
Author: Willa Cather
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Book Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
