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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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- Publication Date:23/09/2021
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:198 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Graphic Arts Books
- Publication Date:23/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781513206370
