One of Ours

After reading The Song of the Lark for a Lit Crit class i tried reading all the Willa Cather books i could get my hands on. Although both O Pioneers and My Antonia are more famous (and rank higher on my list of favorites) this is the title that won the Pulitzer.
Claude, a young man living in Nebraska is disillusioned by his family's deteriorating values and becomes a soldier in World War I. There are many beautiful passages in this book as Cather is a beautiful writer and it is well worth reading.