Winesburg, Ohio - 9781547059126

I must have been no more than fifteen or sixteen years old when I first chanced upon Winesburg, Ohio. Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson's small-town "grotesques," I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, touching upon half-buried truths which nothing in my young life had prepared me for. A New York City boy who never saw the crops grow or spent time in the small towns that lay sprinkled across America, I found myself overwhelmed by the scenes of wasted life, wasted love-was this the "real" America?-that Anderson sketched in Winesburg. In those days only one other book seemed to offer so powerful a revelation, and that was Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 06, 2017

Number of Pages: 182 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1547059125

ISBN-13: 9781547059126