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Main Street

Author
Sinclair Lewis
Series
American Classics
Language
English
Length
428 pages
ISBN
9781911263418
Published
15 March 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • Main Street
  • satire
  • humour
  • American
  • materialism
  • consumerism
  • conformity
  • middle-class
  • lost generation

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Carol Kennicott brings books and plans to Gopher Prairie; the town prefers itself. Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street is small-city America as a velvet trap: booster talk, committee ladies, a woman who wanted a culture and got a street. Satire with a bruise — idealism, scorn, and the long patience of coming back. Lewis invented Gopher Prairie so America could look in the glass. Carol’s clubs, plays, and failures are funny until they are not; the street always has more votes than she does.

Author

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognised for his vivid, satirical portraits of middle-class life. Main Street and Babbitt made small-town conformity a national mirror; Arrowsmith examined medical idealism; Elmer Gantry skewered religious hypocrisy. Lewis's wit and photographic realism gave American fiction a new confidence — and an uncomfortable honesty about its own culture.

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