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Windy McPherson's Son
Sherwood Anderson
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Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of a father who constantly embarrasses him. Eventually, after his mother's death and an episode with a middle-aged schoolteacher, McPherson leaves Caxton for Chicago. In Chicago, he gets a job as a buyer of farm implements and establishes his reputation in business. While his professional life is blossoming, his personal life suffers. After meeting Sue Rainey, the daughter of his boss Colonel Rainey, they get married and twice fail to have children. Following a business deal that forces his father-in-law out of his own company, McPherson and Sue Rainey separate. One day, once McPherson had become quite wealthy, he gets a telegram saying that Colonel Rainey committed suicide. This causes Sam to realize that he is unhappy with his life. This feeling inspires him to leave Chicago and travel all over becoming involved in various adventures. Finally, McPherson's comes across a promiscuous and alcoholic mother of three children. A deal is made and McPherson gets custody of the children. Showing up with the children at Sue's current place of residence, the five of them become family. ( Wikipedia)
Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of a father who constantly embarrasses him. Eventually, after his mother's death and an episode with a middle-aged schoolteacher, McPherson leaves Caxton for Chicago. In Chicago, he gets a job as a buyer of farm implements and establishes his reputation in business. While his professional life is blossoming, his personal life suffers. After meeting Sue Rainey, the daughter of his boss Colonel Rainey, they get married and twice fail to have children. Following a business deal that forces his father-in-law out of his own company, McPherson and Sue Rainey separate. One day, once McPherson had become quite wealthy, he gets a telegram saying that Colonel Rainey committed suicide. This causes Sam to realize that he is unhappy with his life. This feeling inspires him to leave Chicago and travel all over becoming involved in various adventures. Finally, McPherson's comes across a promiscuous and alcoholic mother of three children. A deal is made and McPherson gets custody of the children. Showing up with the children at Sue's current place of residence, the five of them become family. ( Wikipedia)
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Among the travelling men who came to Caxton to sell goods, the boy, who had continued the paper selling even after attaining the stature of a man, was a favourite. Sitting in chairs before the New Leland House they talked to him of the city and of the money to be made there.
"It is the place for a live young man," they said.
Sam had a talent for drawing people into talk of themselves and of their affairs and began to cultivate travelling men. From them, he got into his nostrils a whiff of the city and, listening to them, he saw the great ways filled with hurrying people, the tall buildings touching the sky, the . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Good, though somewhat predictable and less than fully convincing rags to riches story. Sam McPherson is driven, from a young age, toward business success. He finds success, but of course fails to find happiness, and also discovers that his money and power can't change the lives of everyday people wh
I really liked this book. It is depressing in that it is a portrait of small town poverty in early 1900's. The drunken father contributes nothing but shame to his family, while his young wife slaves away trying to feed her children, ultimately working herself into an early grave. The only joy is tha
Sherwood Anderson's first novel. A not too subtle social morality tale, but one that serves well for today. The cautions against the evils of corporate greed still resonate. His feelings on socialism are interestingly indifferent, but conclusions on the power and importance of the family are predict
I did not like this as much as Winesburg Ohio even though the first third of the novel was close. It tells the autobiographical tale of Sam McPherson, a young boy growing up in corn market town in Iowa who is driven to succeed because he is embarrassed by his drunken windbag of a father who incessan
"Windy McPherson's Son" is Sherwood Anderson's thinly veiled autobiographical novel of a man in search of his purpose in life. It is a bit of a rollercoaster ride. First I loved it, then I really disliked where it was going and by the end I was liking it again. It is an American industrial age Siddh
As always, I appreciate those that document their own time and place.
The romance, oh, the romance. It seems so corny and out-dated, but, the fiercely heart-felt and almost embarassingly honest soliloquys of Sam McPherson rank among the best in American literature.
Says much in few words. It's surprising how short the book is (235 page as an ebook) yet it tells such a thoroughly detailed story about the characters. Great writing.
A solid first novel, from a man that had a lot to say, and clearly knew how he wanted to say it.
Even if the story felt predictable at times, it never felt like a chore to read.