Poor White
de ANDERSON, Sherwood
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Good-
- Librería
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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Sinopsis
From the book:Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back from the town - called in derision by river men "Mudcat Landing" - was almost entirely worthless and unproductive. The soil, yellow, shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh's time, by a race of long gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land on which they lived. They were chronically dis-couraged, and the merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state. The merchants, who ran their stores - poor tumble-down ramshackle affairs - on the credit system, could not get pay for the goods they handed out over their counters and the artisans, the shoemakers, carpenters and harnessmakers, could not get pay for the work they did. Only the town's two saloons prospered. The saloon keepers sold their wares for cash and, as the men of the town and the farmers who drove into town felt that without drink life was unbearable, cash always could be found for the purpose of getting drunk.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cleveland Book Company (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 8308
- Título
- Poor White
- Autor
- ANDERSON, Sherwood
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good-
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- B. W. Huebsch
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1920
- Palabras clave
- Ohio literature, Winesburg, Ohio, Modernism, Modernist literature
Términos de venta
Cleveland Book Company
Sobre el vendedor
Cleveland Book Company
Sobre Cleveland Book Company
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