num_pages: 246
description: Before John Cheever, Raymond Carver, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction — evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the window, an old writer contemplates the fluttering of his heart and considers, as if viewing a pageant, the inhabitants of a small midwestern town. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy. "It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing," wrote H.L. Mencken, "that the book is lifted into a category all its own."With commentary by Sherwood Anderson, Rebecca West, and Hart Crane.
language: English
title: Winesburg, Ohio
titlecomplete: Winesburg, Ohio
characters: Seth Richmond, Ray Pearson, Enoch Robinson, Belle Carpenter, Alice Hindman, Elmer Cowley, Jesse Bentley, David Hardy, Tom Foster, Joe Welling, Louise Trunnion, Tandy Hard, Doctor Parcival, Elizabeth Willard, George Willard, Wash Williams, Helen White, Kate Swift, Louise Bentley, The Reverend Curtis Hartman
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Americana, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 34011
places: Ohio
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Modern Library