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One of Ours Staff Recommended and the sheer heartbreaking follyDescription by Willa Cather Paperback Willa Cather (1873 1947) was awarded the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for this stirring novel about World War I. She brings to life the simple Nebraska farm folk and their tranquil rural lifestyle, showing how the Great War, seemingly so far away on the Old Continent, eventually touches them all. Protagonist Claude Wheeler, a strong, healthy farm boy, is physically typical of his sturdy sod buster family and hard working