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Publisher: Alma
Author: Sinclair Lewis
ISBN: 9781847498960
Year: 2023
Format: Paperback
Classics, Fiction
Main Street
by
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street by
Sinclair Lewis
Summary
Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redesigning her adopted village, but her efforts are thwarted by the narrow-mindedness, pettiness and conventionality of the locals, who conspire against her and deride all her endeavours.
An enormous commercial and critical success on its first publication in 1920, Main Street – regarded by many as Sinclair Lewis's best novel – delivers a scathing satire on the American dream, and is invaluable as a document of pre-Prohibition Middle America.