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Title details for One of Ours by Willa Cather - Available

One of Ours

by Willa Cather
Kristen Underwood
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Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel 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 the purpose he has been searching for all his life. His yearnings impel him toward a frontier wilder and more violent than the one tamed by his pioneer ancestors.

One of Ours is a canny and vital portrait of an American psyche at once skeptical and romantic, restless and heroic.

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  • Release date

    January 1, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781483064185
      • File size: 413360 KB
      • Duration: 14:21:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 980
    • Text Difficulty: 5-7

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Louis B. Jack narrates Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, based on her cousin's life. Claude Wheeler, the son of a wealthy farmer and a pious mother, feels discontented with attending a Christian college. Jack portrays Wheeler as a charming young man who strives to learn how to lead a meaningful life. Endearing and loyal housekeeper Mahailey, a former slave who deeply cares for the Wheeler family, is Jack's most memorable creation. Listeners will feel a shift in Wheeler when he joins the military--finally feeling a sense of purpose--and sails for France. Descriptions of the ocean voyage, his fellow soldiers, and scenes of the dead and dying on the battlefield are vivid and sometimes disturbing. Jack's delivery of the emotive conclusion is heartbreaking. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Although there are WWI battle scenes in Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the most important action is all in the mind of its main character. Claude Wheeler seeks a place in the world that is independent of the expectations of his family and the world of rural Nebraska. Narrator Joel Richards focuses on the interiority of the story without minimizing Claude's complex and difficult connections with the world outside his head. The people around him come to life despite Claude's difficulties in understanding his true relationships with them. (He may be on the autism spectrum.) Despite the character's confusion and indecision, Richards remains interesting and sympathetic in portraying him. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:980
  • Text Difficulty:5-7

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