Is This the American Novel—at Last?

From The New Republic, Nov 3, 1920.
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When critics speak of the American novelists who are forerunners of a native literature, they invariably mention Sherwood Anderson. Year by year he has grown in stature. The promise of his two novels was fulfilled in Winesburg, Ohio, which the N. Y. Times included in the ten best works of fiction of 1919. Now he presents the fruit of mature art and experience in a work that many will hail as the American novel. The publisher has every confidence that Poor White will prove the outstanding imaginative work written in America in some years, but as the public is wary of publishers’ statements he refrains from anything more than an urgent recommendation to read the book.

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