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One of Ours - Willa Cather

One of Ours - Willa Cather

Brand: Vintage Classics   |   Status: Còn hàng
350.000₫

"I had never heard of this writer but read it as a 'recommended read' and because I like the writing of this period. I felt that I had read two books as the first half takes place on American farmland and the second half is on French soil during World War I, but the link is the main character who has been searching for something to satisfy his life. The call to war gives him a new direction and purpose. Totally different landscapes and lifestyles are described. A book of interesting characters and particularly of a young person's desire for life and all the conflicting emotions which accompany that." - Amazon Customer Reviews

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Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the restless young 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 yearning impels 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