Explorations Read-Aloud: “One of Ours” by Willa Cather

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.

For August 4, Coté will read aloud from Willa Cather’s novel One of Ours.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF 1923

Summary: One of Ours tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century.

The son of a successful mid-western farmer and an intensely pious mother, thus guaranteed a comfortable livelihood, Claude Wheeler nonetheless views himself as a victim of his father’s success and his own inexplicable malaise.

One of Ours is a portrait of a peculiarly American personality: it is the story of a young man born after the American frontier has vanished, yet whose quintessentially American restlessness seeks redemption on a frontier far bloodier and more distant than that which his forefathers had already tamed.

Click the links to find the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page.

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