Bibliograph

One of ours, Willa Cather

Type

Label

One of ours, Willa Cather

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

980, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

One of ours

Oclc number

24617423767184

Responsibility statement

Willa Cather

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 7.2, 22.0, 10841.

Summary

Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It's only when America enters the First World War that Claude finds the purpose he has searched for. One of Ours is divided into two parts: the first half is set in Nebraska where Claude struggles to find his life's purpose; the second part, during World War I where he ironically fulfills his romantic idealism on the brutal battlefields of 1918 France. It is the story of a young man born after the American frontier has vanished, yet whose quintessentially American restlessness seeks redemption on a frontier far bloodier

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