One of Ours

One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923
Pulitzer Prize. It 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.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.