![]() ![]() ![]() The people of Winesburg are emotionally wounded, beset by shame or regret, and include a former schoolteacher once accused of fondling young boys a pastor who likes to hide in the darkness and watch his neighbor undress a clerk who, after being jilted by her lover, runs naked through the streets. Most of the characters in these 22 tales feel so trapped and alienated that Anderson coined a term for them: "grotesques." In fact, he wanted to call his linked collection "The Book of the Grotesque," but his publisher overruled him. If you haven't read "Winesburg, Ohio," published in 1919, the title alone might give you the impression that it's a quaint story about the charms of small town life at the turn of the century. ![]()
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