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Willa Cather

Start date: January 1, 2024

Finish date: January 31, 2024

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Apr 03, 2019 Janice (JG) rated it it was amazing

Cather's stories are quiet, but there is nothing ever easy about them. This story of a young man named Claude is quietly devastating. How Cather is able to portray the restless yearning of a farm boy trapped in tradition, and how he discovers his life in the tragedy of war, is remarkable. No wonder this book won her the Pulitzer Prize. It is deserving. Another reviewer (Jon) describes her writing perfectly, "I have never read another author who so thoroughly 'gets' the whole Virgilian sense of ' ...more

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Feb 14, 2022 Sandy rated it it was amazing

How could a woman write such an amazing account of a young man’s inner world? Lovely writing, tragic story and inspiring characters.

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Aug 11, 2021 Anne Bennett rated it liked it · review of another edition

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A fairly complex look at life on the prairie in the early 1900s compared to the horrors of war, specifically WWI. This book won the 1923 Pulitzer I imagine in part due to its proximity to the end of that war and to changing rural life all over the country as farms became mechanized.

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