Poor White

By Sherwood Anderson

Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio. He invents a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of famers, but an investor in town exploits his product, which fails to succeed. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a millionaire and transforms Bidwell into a center of manufacturing. McVey, perennially lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends college at nearby Ohio State and is perennially harassed by her potential matches. Published one year after Winesburg, Ohio, in 1920, Poor White has a modernist style, an realist attention to every day life, and an eerily contemporary resonance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Belt Publishing
• Release date: May 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781948742016

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. Following a brief stint in the Spanish American War, he started a family and founded a business -- both of which he abruptly abandoned at the age of 36 to pursue his life-long dream of writing. His simple and direct writing style, with which he portrayed important moments in the lives of his characters, influenced both Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. His other notable works include Triumph of the Egg; Horses and Men; and A Story Teller's Story.

Reviews for Poor White

[lindawwilson · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Elected not to finish this book. Did not like the format -too much wandering around with descriptions of America and not sticking to the story at hand. Finally, I lost interest in the characters that I would have liked, if the story had concentrated more on them. Winesburg Ohio was much much bette