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Zusatztext The thing about Willa Cather's landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades Informationen zum Autor Born in 1873 to a family who had farmed in Virginia for generations, Willa Cather moved to her father's new ranch in Nebraska when she was eight. The raw frontier territories and the pioneer life of the Old West were to awaken her imagination and furnish the atmosphere for much of her later work. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather became a teacher and a journalist. In 1912 she abandoned journalism to write full time. Her first novel was Alexander's Bridge (1912) though she had already published a volume of poems and another of short stories. Her vivid novels cover a wide range: there are impassioned and thoughtful explorations of the ancient worlds of the Americas in The Professor's House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) as well as sympathetic portrayals of conflicting values, or of the demands of art. These, along with her evocations of the pioneering West, soon established her reputation as one of America's foremost writers. Willa Cather died in New York in 1947. Klappentext 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. '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 Vorwort A 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel championing democracy about the making of an American soldier. Zusammenfassung 'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' OBSERVER 'One of Our s, Willa Cather's novel of youth, the prairie, influenza, and war, was one of the author's greatest successes' ALEX ROSS, NEW YORKER 'The thing about Willa Cather's landscape and figures is that not only were they born alive but remain so after six decades' GUARDIAN 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. ...
