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1924. Anderson, whose prose style, derived from everyday speech, influenced American short story writing between World Wars I and II. He directed the American short story away from the neatly plotted tales of O. Henry and his imitators. A Story Teller's Story is Anderson's own tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writers-told in many notes-in four books and an Epilogue. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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About the Author:
Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. His first novel, Windy McPherson's Son, was published in 1916. His most important work, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), was published in 1919. He died of peritonitis in Panama on March 8, 1941. Thomas Lynch is the author of the essay collections The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade and Bodies in Motion and at Rest.
Review:
"The American Portrait of the Artist." - Charles Baxter "Probably unequaled... for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of conviction.... A book which should be read by every intelligent American.", - The New York Times "The pilgrim's progress of a man at once a genuine artist... and a small-town, pool-playing, story-telling Midwesterner." - Sinclair Lewis "In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America." - The Nation "The voice of the soliloquist... amplifies the drama of A Story Teller's Story, as does the persistent theme of escape, from an America of fact and factories, marketing and manufacturing, to the borderless Ohio's of imagination and creation. Part manifesto, part reverie, part romance, it is full of scene-sets, stage directions, vignettes, and 'moments'. An Epilogue replays what seems a never-ending struggle in the writer's life between 'the fanciful' and 'the physical', between the work one does for a living and the work one does to be alive...." - From the introduction by Thomas Lynch"
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- PublisherKessinger Pub Co
- ISBN 10 0766199770
- ISBN 13 9780766199774
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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