Born in 1876, Sherwood Anderson grew up in a small town in Ohio - an experience that was the basis of his greatest achievements as a writer. He served in the Spanish-American War, worked as an advertising man, and managed an Ohio paint factory before abandoning both job and family to embark on a literary career in Chicago. His first novel, Windy McPherson's Son, was published in 1916; his second, Marching Men, a characteristic study of the individual in conflict with industrial society, appeared in 1917. But it is Winesburg, Ohio (1919), with its disillusioned view of small-town lives, that is generally considered his masterpiece. Later novels - Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter - continued to depict the spiritual poverty of the machine age. Anderson died in 1941.
This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest. The central character is George Willard, a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the town's inhabitans confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. The town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Anderson's special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together. Malcolm Cowley's introduction is a penetrating reappraisal of "the only storyteller of his generation who left a mark on the style and vision of the generation that followed...Hemingway, Faulker, Wolfe, Steinbeck, Caldwell, Saroyan, and Henry Miller...each owes an unmistakable debt to Anderson."
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评分冬天的早上卖豆腐的老头不相干的一句抱怨,学堂的先生和女学生的流言,廿九岁尚未出嫁的大家闺秀,每一个城市总不会缺少的疯子傻子聋子哑巴,酱油店锡匠店粉丝店杂货店凉粉店的大老板的姨太太的二表哥。又高又瘦看起来很有学问的说书人讲过桃园结义,义仆救主,牡丹西厢,这些...
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Seemingly unusual grotesques...Everyone's a freak, in one way or another.
评分看前面几篇还颇受触动,可是越到后来就觉得这样一群固执地沉溺在自己世界里又受不了寂寞的人本就是——活该,连带作者这种细腻忧伤的笔调也让我很、恼、火。
评分看前面几篇还颇受触动,可是越到后来就觉得这样一群固执地沉溺在自己世界里又受不了寂寞的人本就是——活该,连带作者这种细腻忧伤的笔调也让我很、恼、火。
评分看了之后我即刻把自己分离了出来,重新有了客观看生活的视角。
评分看前面几篇还颇受触动,可是越到后来就觉得这样一群固执地沉溺在自己世界里又受不了寂寞的人本就是——活该,连带作者这种细腻忧伤的笔调也让我很、恼、火。
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