I believe this is what it would have truly been like to be a soldier at the time. Word Count: 169. Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier. Forgot account? Claude gives up his dreams when his father convinces him to take over the lucrative family farm. A woman who didn't have holy thoughts about mysterious things far away would be prosaic and commonplace, like a man.”. Cather, who was born and raised on the farm next to Willas family. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Beautifully descriptive writing that brings an emotional, almost spiritual, appreciation of nature, family, friends, and particularly of the search for purpose in life that is meaningful. Wait! Claude Wheeler is a young man with, seemingly, everything. One terrorist saw this as the best time to strike. Our Partners. A MUST read for any Cather fan. I almost gave this book 3 stars because of the middle, but the parts of it that were beautiful were so beautiful that I think it deserves 4. One of Ours is an achievement in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. For understandable reasons, "One of Ours" is perhaps Willa Cather's most underrated novel. I particularly liked the character of the cook and housekeeper Mahailey who was devoted to the Wheeler family and in particular to Claude. Well respected parents who own a good Nebraska farm that will someday belong to Claude, and he has a new wife. I'm a Nebraskan, it's a law that we love Willa. You could basically say the same about reviewing Cather. LibriVox recording of One of Ours, by Willa Cather. They died and took their secret with them -- what they were and what they might have been", but there were many beautiful passages I highlighted along the way. I just couldn't get behind what Cather had to say about the experience of war once Claude goes to France. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read One of Ours. His fortune is … I'm crying as I write this review??? So well written, so heartbreaking on so many levels; I totally see how this won the Pulitzer - it is so worthy of that prize. I started out liking Claude Wheeler, the young man from Lincoln Nebraska who is at the center of this novel. And it was a book for class???? Alfred Knopf. A moving novel about human restlessness and search for purpose. What s, The story of Claude Wheeler, a college-age farmer's son in Nebraska, just before and during World War I. I try to put my finger on what is so appealing about Cather's prose, besides the sensitive and subtle presentation of her characters and her vivid descriptions of the physical world. • Frank Sanchez responds to the murder of a retired Miami Police … It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native in the first decades of the 20th century. 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