Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780486282695)

In this moving collection of interrelated stories, Ohio-born Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) illuminates the loneliness and frustration -- spiritual, emotional and artistic -- of life in a small American town. Winesburg, Ohio subtly portrays as well a young writer's coming of age, searching for love, yearning for a less stifling world.
Through the eyes of young George Willard, the inner lives of many of Winesburg's inhabitants open to us. Before George leaves the community, we have learned much about his mother Elizabeth, his friend Helen White, his teacher Kate Swift and other Winesburg residents -- the lonely, sensitive Dr. Reefy, the tormented Rev. Charles Hartman and the enigmatic Wing Biddlebaum among them.
Through Anderson's art, their stories are woven into a powerful portrayal of community life, and, ironically, of the isolation its close atmosphere can engender. A great success on its first publication in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio profoundly influenced a generation of fiction writers with its deeply moving poetic realism. It endures as a classic portrait of American life.

Author: Sherwood Anderson
ISBN-10: 0486282694
ISBN-13: 9780486282695
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1995
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.28w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45