{"product_id":"poor-white-sherwood-anderson-9781948742009","title":"Poor White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished one year after \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e, Sherwood Anderson's greatest novel offers a bleak portrait of luck and modernization in middle America. Part of Belt's Revivals Series and with a new introduction by John Lingan, author of \u003ci\u003eHomeplace\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a childhood living in poverty, Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio, hoping to become an inventor. There, he develops a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of famers, but an investor in town exploits his product and it eventually fails. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a millionaire and transforms Bidwell into a center of manufacturing. McVey, perennially lonely and ruminative, eventually meets Clara Butterworth, who attends college at nearby Ohio State and is perennially harassed by her potential suitors. But McVey is plagued by the search for love in a new America overrun by lifeless machines. Published in 1920, \u003ci\u003ePoor White\u003c\/i\u003e has a modernist sensibility and a realist attention to everyday life but also an eerily contemporary resonance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA perfect distillation of how industrialization changed small-town America, \u003ci\u003ePoor White\u003c\/i\u003e is a little-known classic of American literature from the author H. L. Mencken dubbed \"America's Most Distinctive Novelist.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sherwood Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948742004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948742009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belt Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherwood Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e was an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for the short-story sequence \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOhio\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e John Lingan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHomeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Maryland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sherwood Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940346790143,"sku":"9781948742009","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_880a9a1e-09fd-47de-b283-dd58e13d2e8c.jpg?v=1681446670","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poor-white-sherwood-anderson-9781948742009","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}