Tar: A Midwest Childhood

Name: Tar: A Midwest Childhood
Author: Sherwood Anderson

by Sherwood Anderson

Memoir capturing an Ohio boy's coming of age amid family, poverty, and American change

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Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio pioneered the short story cycle and exerted a profound influence on Hemingway, Faulkner, and other major American writers. His fiction explored the psychological repression of small-town Midwestern life.

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