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One of Ours

Written by: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Kristen Underwood
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Pulitzer Prize Winner, The Novel, 1923

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning narrative tells of the making of a young American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, 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. It is a canny and vital portrait of an American psyche at once skeptical and romantic, restless and heroic.

(P)1998 Blackstone Audio Inc. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Been on a World War I kick with the 100th anniversary of the armistice this year, and someone mentioned this Pulitzer Prize winner. It paints a picture of America at the time, and a realistic story of what one man's experience in the war could have been. An outstanding novel, although maybe not quite an all-time great I'm glad I discovered it. One thing to note is, Claude doesn't actually go to war until late in the novel, and there's barely any further mention of his family back home. Maybe this was part of the point, as he discovers things about himself in this other world that are wholly unrelated to the one he grew up in, but I'd have liked some of the first-half characters to at least be revisited. The narrator is excellent but I docked the performance a star because towards the end it includes stuff like "This concludes cassette 8" etc that probably should have been removed for the Audible version.

Glad I discovered this classic

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