authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
Anderson, Sherwood
1996
Contains the text of the novel by Sherwood Anderson along with his letters and memoirs, as well as several critical reviews by Anderson's contemporaries.
Twin brothers Jay and Ray Grayson learn about friendship, honesty, and themselves after taking advantage of a clerical oversight in which their new school thinks there is only one Grayson boy.
The lives of two young people, one in Ohio and one in another dimension, intersect as they struggle to hold their single-parent families together and to explain the behavioral changes they see in their fathers.
Sarah Jane and her mother move into the Sweetwater Motel in Ohio after her mother leaves Sarah's abusive father, and eventually, Sarah begins to miss her old life and even her father.
Ten-year-old Mary Mae, living with her parents in fossil-rich southern Ohio, tries to reconcile, despite her mother's strong disapproval, her family's Creationist beliefs with the prehistoric fossils she studies in school.
In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
Professor Michael Branden, Pastor Caleb Troyer, and Sheriff Bruce Robertson attempt to penetrate the secrecy of the Old Order Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in order to recover a ten-year-old boy who has been kidnapped by his outcast father.