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Many Marriages (Paperback)
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Many Marriages (Paperback)
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Loot Price R219
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Many Marriages (1923) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by
his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to
establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the
guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of
many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is known
today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work
of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and
psychological detail, Anderson's Many Marriages is a masterpiece in
its own right. "There was a man named Webster lived in a town of
twenty-five thousand people in the state of Wisconsin. He had a
wife named Mary and a daughter named Jane and he was himself a
fairly prosperous manufacturer of washing machines. [...] [A]t odd
moments, when he was on a train going some place or perhaps on
Sunday afternoons in the summer when he went alone to the deserted
office of the factory and sat for several hours looking out through
a window and along a railroad track, he gave way to dreams." On an
otherwise average day in his office at an Ohio washing machine
factory, John Webster finds himself dreaming. He contemplates an
affair with his young secretary, hears a number of voices in his
head, and watches an angelic woman drift down the river on a raft
beneath the afternoon sun. When he returns home after work, he
struggles to look his wife and daughter in the face, feeling deep
in his heart he will have to leave them soon. Despite spending his
whole life in service of the mundane-building his business,
supporting his family, securing his finances-Webster knows he can
no longer live an impassionate life. He knows he must reinvent
himself from scratch. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood
Anderson's Many Marriages is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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