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Poor White

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1 Ratings

5

Duration
10H 55min
Language
English
Format
Category

Classics

Hugh McVey is an inventor who moves from Missouri to Bidwell, Ohio. He creates a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the workload of farmers, but an investor exploits his product. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a fortune and transforms the small town in Ohio into a center of manufacturing. McVey, lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends Ohio State. Published one year after the short story collection Winesburg, Ohio, this novel has a modernist style and a realist attention to everyday life, and holds a significant amount of contemporary resonance.

© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781094112060

Release date

Audiobook: April 28, 2020

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