Poor White
A novel of small-town life by the famous American author. Hugh McVey is an inventor of farm machinery who lives in the Midwest at the turn of the century, at just the point when modern technology begins to transform rural America. A lonely and thoughtful man, McVey is ambivalent about the social changes he is helping to bring about and has deeply elegaic feelings towards his daily world. Widely considered Anderson`s finest work, it portrays a vanishing society with sympathy and stark realism.

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