A Story Teller’s Story (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherwood Anderson
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Midwest, Ohio, 1920’s, Emotions, Greed, Small-town life
Critical Evaluation:
During his career Sherwood Anderson wrote three semi-autobiographical studies, of which A STORY TELLER’S STORY is the first and in some ways the most revealing of the man to whom the life of fancy was always as real as the world of fact. As in his fiction, he showed in his account of personal experience the same interest in troubled inward states and psychological depths that he presented in his short stories and novels, compassionate insights into the twisted, distorted lives of the world’s misfits. In this respect he was a pioneer in American...
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