Winesburg Ohio

<b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time</b><br><br>Before Raymond Carver John Cheever 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 carelessness and abandon. Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America wrote H. L. Mencken. It is so vivid so full of insight so shiningly life-like and glowing that the book is lifted into a category all its own.<br><br>With Commentary by Sherwood Anderson Rebecca West and Hart Crane