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Winesburg, Ohio

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Length 7 hours 55 minutes
Language English
Narrators various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim Johanson, Kevin Kennedy, Melissa Leventon, Estelle Piper Kennedy, Rob Rubin, Susan McCarthy, Linda Montgomery, Al Bedrosian, Lou Spiegel, Bobbie Frohman & Larry Smith

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This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young reporter-narrator, George Willard. Their stories are about loneliness and alienation, passion and virginity, wealth and poverty, thrift and profligacy, carelessness and abandon. With its simple and intense style, Winesburg, Ohio evokes the quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women.

Though its reputation once suffered, Winesburg, Ohio is now considered one of the most influential portraits of pre-industrial small-town life in the United States. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked it twenty-fourth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century, and it continues to be read widely both in and out of classrooms around the country.

Sherwood Andersonย (1876โ€“1941) was born in Camden, Ohio. Largely self-educated, he worked at various trades while writing fiction in his spare time. For several years he worked as a copywriter in Chicago where he became part of the Chicago literary renaissance. As an author, he strongly influenced American short-story writing, and his best-known book, Winesburg, Ohioย (1919), brought him recognition as a leader in the revolt against established literary traditions.

David Thorn spent his childhood in the Channel Islands off the coast of France, was schooled in England, and then immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-three. He is retired from international commerce and currently resides in California.

Susan McCarthy is the narrator of numerous audiobooks, including such classics as Jane Austenโ€™s Lady Susan and Sherwood Andersenโ€™s Winesburg, Ohio. Her love for reading began as a young girl, when she discovered the Nancy Drew mystery series and was immediately hooked. Also a voice-over artist, she received her training at VoiceTrax San Francisco.

Bobbie Frohman, a third generation Californian, was raised in a large extended family, the niece of cowboys. Early on she developed a deep love of animals, training her dogs to perform with her at dog shows, and as a competitive barrel racer with her beloved horse, Lucky.

Audiobook details

ISBN:
9781481563215

Length:
7 hours 55 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing

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Edition:
Unabridged

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Reviews

“As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else, unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities in Winesburg, Ohio…These people live and breathe: they are beautiful.”

“Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly lifelike and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own.”

โ€œConsidered to be one of the forerunners of modern fictionโ€ฆ[A] ground-breaking masterpiece.โ€

Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion.”

“A timeless book of connected short stories about the brave, cowardly, and altogether realistic inhabitants of an imaginary American town.”

โ€œA work of love, an attempt to break down the walls that divide one person from another, and also, in its own fashion, a celebration of small-town life in the lost days of goodwill and innocence.โ€

โ€œThe lost, alienated, but basically decent โ€˜grotesquesโ€™ of Winesburg, Ohioย seem more endearing year by year as the modern world present to us an endless parade of human monsters who contain bottomless oceans of conviction and seas of desire, but no ambivalence, no humility, and no self-doubt.โ€

โ€œWhen he calls himself a โ€˜poor scribblerโ€™ donโ€™t believe him. He is not a poor scribblerโ€ฆhe is a very great writer.โ€

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