Poor white
(2018)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Belt Publishing, 2018
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781948742016 (electronic bk.) MWT12223442, 1948742012 (electronic bk.) 12223442
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio. He invents a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of famers, but an investor in town exploits his product, which fails to succeed. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a millionaire and transforms Bidwell into a center of manufacturing. McVey, perennially lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends college at nearby Ohio State and is perennially harassed by her potential matches. Published one year after Winesburg, Ohio, in 1920, Poor White has a modernist style, a realist attention to everyday life, and an eerily contemporary resonance
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