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One of Ours (Virago modern classics)

One of Ours (Virago modern classics)

by WillaCather (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

Since childhood, Claude Wheeler has believed that something splendid' would restore the faith he had lost in modern life and the personal compromises and materialism that it brings. The calls of the First World War offers escape from his prosperous farm in Nebraska and marriage of convenience and brings the opportunity to fight for a worthy cause. In action in France he discovers the faith and happiness he has yearned, but not without the heavy cost that war inevitably brings. Willa Cather looks back at the pioneering myth and forward to a new kind of modern heroism through One of Ours, a novel championing democracy.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 17 Apr 1997
ISBN 10: 0860685020
ISBN 13: 9780860685029
Prizes: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1922.

Media Reviews
An astonishing power to touch an elegiac note right on the nerve without sentimentality * MARINA WARNER *
The thing about Willa Cather's landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades * GUARDIAN *
Author Bio
Willa Cather (1875-1947) was born in Virginia, which she captures in this memorable novel. The pioneer life of the Old West deeply coloured her later life and work. She died in New York.