Winesburg, Ohio

zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not ne......more

While modernists explore human souls from within, trying to creep into every nook and cranny, Winesburg, Ohio is just skin deep… There are no souls, just skeletons… He began to play at a new game. For a while he was very proud of himself in the role of producing citizen of the world. He dismissed the......more

A beautiful, melancholy song to small-town loneliness and despair--to the fragile bonds that tie neighbors together and the vivid lives and heartfelt personal dramas that pulse beneath the surface of ordinary affairs. This was once a book I carried with me everywhere, a book I tried (and failed) to......more

Holy Moley! Virginia Woolf finds the very caverns leading to hell; Sherwood Anderson makes miscellaneous dips into the very depths of actual fire... & the residents of Winesburg all live there. They are the ghosts of the living. Anecdotes in Winesburg (devoid of time or protagonist) are juicy with i......more

Open hearts - closed doors: read this book along with Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee Masters) and Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Thornton Wilder) to get the zeitgeist of dawning industrialization as it carves canyons of alienation through small towns. A 'proto' examination of the gentrification w......more