A review by onuryeats
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

5.0

You guys probably don’t know that I’m a SHORT STORY WHORE. First of all, the reason why I wanted to read this book is that the author heavily impressed such authors as Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Saroyan, Henry Miller etc. Personally speaking, I was so overwhelmed by the book’s magnificence. There is nothing bad to say about this book. The structure of the book is quite intriguing. It frames the stories of melancholic “weirdos” belonged to the same fictional town, Winesburg. The first part of the book, The Book of the Grotesque, was the greatest. “Grotesque” could have never been explained better than that. (The grotesque described in the book also reminded me of McCullers’s essence of grotesque.) Hands is the one that I liked the most. Besides, the link between the stories the Strength of God and the Teacher is praiseworthy. Overall, the book itself has an unique story structure that you cannot find in any book.