Poor White

by Sherwood Anderson

Overview

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Poor White' is a novel set in the deep south of the USA. Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. He left school at fourteen, and after working various jobs served in the Spanish-American War in 1898. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels. During the twenties, Anderson published Poor White (1920), The Triumph of the Egg (1921), Many Marriages (1923) and Horses and Men (1923). Although considered to be a minor work by the critics, Anderson's most commercial successful novel was Dark Laughter, published in 1925. Anderson died of peritonitis in Panama in 1941, aged 64.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473350083
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	02/16/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	378
File size:	566 KB
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for the short-story sequence Winesburg,Ohio. John Lingan is the author of Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk. He lives in Maryland.
 

What People are Saying About This

Henry Miller

"Sherwood Anderson has a patience not just of the artist but of the religious man: he knew that there was bright shiny ore beneath the scabby crust."

Horace Gregory

"No novel of the American small town in the Midwest evokes in mind of its readers so much of the cultural heritage of its milieu as does Poor White."

Editorial Reviews

Anderson's story of inventor Hugh McVey, which he originally published in 1920, the year after Winesburg, Ohio , is considered by many to be his finest novel. (May)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

"Belt Revivals wisely brings Anderson back onto the radar during this political moment" —New York Times


"For the past five years, a small press called Belt Publishing has been bringing out intriguing nonfiction books about the Midwest; now they've started a new series called "Belt Revivals," to publish classic Midwestern fiction as well as nonfiction." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR


"Poor White’s thoughts on wealth and fortune might feel contemporary, but that alone wouldn’t be enough if a reader wasn’t compelled to find out what happened to Hugh McVey, 'born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri.' It’s a foreboding beginning for a story that pays careful attention to what it meant (and means) to live in the Midwest, open to both its charms and its challenges." —Sarah Laskow, The Millions

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