One of Ours - Couverture souple

Cather, Willa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679737448 ISBN 13 : 9780679737445

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991

Synopsis

Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier.

Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated 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 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 yearnings impel 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679737448
• ISBN 13: 9780679737445
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible