Home Town

IT is a good many years since Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio, for the permanent enrichment of American literature. And it is almost unbelievably good fortune that in this dark and troubled year Mr. Anderson has again looked at life in small American towns. His point of view has mellowed and broadened, and this time the camera has gone into partnership with him. The Farm Security Photographers have assembled a series of wise, unsentimental, and moving visual documents, and Mr. Anderson’s prose heightens and illumines the pictures. The result is that Home Town is a book to own and be proud of owning, to give to the most varied sorts of people, and be proud in the giving. It is worth a hundred courses in ‘Rethinking the American Way.’