His groin and abdomen were torn on the left side. The wound, and the stretcher on which he lay, supported a mass of dark, coagulated blood that looked like a great cow’s liver. —One of Ours, Book Five, XI Willa
Willa Cather (Cather, Willa Sibert) 1873–1947, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Winchester, Va., considered one of the great American writers of the 20th cent.… Her intense interest in the craft of fiction is shown in the essays in Not Under Forty (1936) and On Writing (1949). Cather herself was a master of that craft, her novels and stories written in a pellucid style of great charm and stateliness.—Continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: kth ´ from The American Heritage®
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One of Ours . 1922.
Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of a Midwestern American’s journey to the front of World War I.
Cather, Willa, 10993 to 11092
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