Claude Wheeler, red-haired and dissatisfied, wakes before dawn on his father’s farm on Lovely Creek, Nebraska, already chafing at a life that seems to promise him nothing. An unhappy marriage and the narrow certainties of the prairie press on him until the First World War opens a door to France, the army and a sense of purpose he has never known.
Cather’s Pulitzer Prize novel, drawn partly from the life of a cousin killed in France, still divides and moves readers. Download the free EPUB.