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Marching Men (Paperback)
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Marching Men (Paperback)
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Loot Price R212
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Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional
and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age
story that explores the individual and collective identities
shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story
collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist
literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological
detail, Anderson's Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction that
helped establish him as a leading realist writer of his generation.
"In a country of so many varied climates and occupations as America
it is absurd to talk of an American type. The country is like a
vast disorganised undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going
in route-step along the road to they know not what end." At a young
age, Norman McGregor, a misfit dreamer, knows this to be true of
his country. Fourteen-year-old Norman, ironically named "Beaut" for
his homely appearance, works alongside his mother at a bakery in
the town of Coal Creek. When frustration over unpaid debts leads
him to close the bakery, a group of disgruntled miners nearly
destroys his family's only source of income. At the last second, a
group of soldiers marches in to protect them, inspiring Norman with
a sense of unity. As a young man, he leaves his hometown for
Chicago, where he develops a relationship with a woman who
introduces him to politics and labor organizing. Unable to shake
the memory of the marching soldiers, he dedicates his life to
collective empowerment. Marching Men is a story of the American
Dream, for all of its difficult truths and convenient fictions.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson's Marching Men is a
classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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