Sam McPherson grows up in Caxton, a corn-shipping town in Iowa, selling newspapers and ashamed of his father Windy, a braggart and failure. Driven to succeed, he goes to Chicago, rises in business, marries the daughter of a rich man and gains power — and then begins to wonder what any of it is for.
Anderson’s first novel, written before Winesburg, Ohio, an early American reckoning with the cost of success. Download the free EPUB.