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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 29, 2004 13:27:43 GMT -5
An excellent excellent short story collection by Sherwood Anderson. It had a major impact on many future writers, like Ernest Hemingway.
I never read it until now, and beginning with "Hands," it is a remarkable piece of work. Not only that, it is very accessible, unlike, say, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The stories are all short so you'll be able to finish in a day or two, at the most.
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Post by chancelucky on Nov 1, 2004 12:06:06 GMT -5
I'm a fan of Winesburg, Ohio as well and the thematically-linked short story collection that are more character driven than plot driven. Anderson used to be more popular in US schools, but seems to have been pushed out for some reason.
Because its a cumulative portrait of one town, I've always tied together Winesburg with Edgar Lee Masters poetry collection, Spoon River...Also there's William March's Company K (a book of portraits of a World War I platoon, that probably strongly influenced Mailer's the Naked and the Dead). Anderson also wrote Poor White, another thematically linked collection of stories that like Winesburg goes deeper and more sympathetic to the human subjects than Sinclair Lewis's portraits of midwestern life and the death of 19th Century isolated small town America with the rise of mass communications, the automobile, etc.
maybe somebody will write a collection of short stories about a volleyball team?
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