Windy McPherson's Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both
fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's debut novel is a coming
of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and infidelity
while illustrating the frustrations of the son of an abusive
father. 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 Windy
McPherson's Son is a powerful work of fiction that helped establish
him as a leading realist writer of his generation. "At the
beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson,
a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and
an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he
walked, came upon the platform of the little corn-shipping town of
Caxton in Iowa." With a cigar in his hand and a bundle of
newspapers under his arm, the young Sam McPherson appears both
overly proud and ambitious for his age. Those that know him,
however, understand that he has no choice. Left to fend for himself
by an alcoholic father, Sam dreams of making a name for himself and
escaping the small town of his birth. When an ill-fated affair with
an older teacher leaves him disgraced, McPherson abandons his
father for Chicago, where he finds work as a purchaser of farming
equipment. Soon, he falls in love with his boss' daughter, the
beautiful Sue Rainey. Windy McPherson's Son 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 Windy
McPherson's Son is a classic of American literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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