Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515161134)

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
ISBN-10: 1515161137
ISBN-13: 9781515161134
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2015
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d