Michael Finocchiaro's Reviews > One of Ours

This Pulitzer winner is both a frontier/pioneer story and a World War I story. It features Claude who never quite fits into farm life in Nebraska and goes off to die heroically in the trenches of the Somme (or Marne?) It was chosen over Main Street by Sinclair Lewis which caused not a little bit of consternation and controversy at the time. Stay tuned, I plan to read Main Street soon before I read Arrowsmith for which Lewis won but turned down a Pulitzer several years later.
On its own, One of Ours is an entertaining, if somewhat depressing, read. It was, however, not my favorite by Cather. I preferred My Antonia written between O Pioneers and this one.

My rating of all the Pulitzer Winners: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...