I found this book through a slightly unusual route. I was reading "Fire Touched" an urban fantasy book and there was a description of the books on the desk of the Marrok, leader of the North American werewolves. Sherwood Anderson was one of the authors he was reading. My ignorance of classic Ameri...
Introduction--The Book of the Grotesque--Hands, concerning Wing Biddlebaum--Paper Pills, concerning Doctor Reefy--Mother, concerning Elizabeth Willard--The Philosopher, concerning Doctor Parcival--Nobody Knows, concerning Louise TrunnionGodliness, a Tale in Four Parts:--I, concerning Jesse Bentley--...
"You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices."At the heart of the city and the people in Winesburg, Ohio is a purity, an optimism that over time becomes tainted, decayed, distorted because of missed opportunities or common mistakes experienced in l...
When European artists want to place their symbolical tale in a setting that’s nowhere and everywhere they often settle for Central-Eastern Europe. There are so many countries there, the borders keep changing all the time, no one can keep up, so the artists can let their imagination run wild. They ca...
When I was ten years old, my family moved from Washington state to Ohio. More than any other single event, this move fundamentally changed my life, in some ways for the better, in some ways rather value-neutrally, but in most ways for the worse. Everything was different after the move, and ever sinc...
Many—all?—who grew up in the Midwest have had plans to leave it behind one day. Many—all?—who grew up in a small town in Middle America have had plans to find some place better. However, plans change and not everyone gets to leave. Sherwood Anderson brings that inner struggle into his writing, makin...
I believe Mr Anderson is a very talented writer. I also think he touched on many subjects of interest to me and others. But, for the most part, as charming as it was and well-written, I felt it all too soft for me, kind of like a Little House on the Prairie if you want to know the truth. Perhaps a b...
4.5I apologise for my lack of originality, but I need to steal karen's perfect summarisation of this book: "this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does?"There is no better way to put it than that. Winesburg,...
Magnificent, perfect..., a work of genius... what can I say...? Like many, I suppose, I never wanted to read this, thinking (erroneously) that it was filled with quaint Americana -- a sort of dull Andrew Wyeth... oh..., how wrong I was... A book I should have read 30..., 40 years ago... If you haven...
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