I know this is supposedly his best, but I don't see it. It is definitely greater than the sum of its parts, but few of those parts are great. I would say only one story qualifies as truly great, and only a few others are very good. I like Triumph of the Egg better, even though it isn't so interco...
'Winesburg, Ohio' is a collection of short stories that functions, more or less, as a novel. Due to the times in which it appeared, much is veiled in euphemism, but there's plenty of sordid, torrid, seamy, and other-words-most-often-found-on-the back-of-a-cheap-paperback going on in this quiet town....
This is a collection of 25 stories set in the 1890s in the fictional small town of Winesburg. Each story focuses on one Winesburg resident, with other characters drifting in and out of all the stories. It reads more like a series of shifting tableaux than an episodic novel, but in the end it felt ...
Rating: 3.75* of fiveAnderson's influence on both Faulkner and Hemingway is very clear. He's got a deft hand with characterization, but he's not quite the craftsman that Faulkner would prove to be...his jumps in time feel like boo-boos, not choices. And he's not quite the storyteller Hemingway would...
I understand this to be an American classic first published in 1919. Supposedly the writing of Sherwood Anderson influenced later writers such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Woolf, and Steinbeck. One thought that occurred to me is that he did for northern communities what Faulkner did for the South.The b...
Superbly written from the technical sense. Unfortunately the characters are as colorless as Ohioans really do tend to be. I'M SORRY! It's just that in my experience I have met some terribly nice, but terribly boring people from Ohio and this collection of short stories backs that up. Aw, come on Oh...
I waited too long to write my thoughts on this one and now I remember so little. But that in itself is a critique. Any book which doesn't stay with you was probably ho-hum at best.So which parts do I remember? Actually, I remember the four-part story "Godliness" best--the one about the grandfathe...
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