Sinclair Lewis - Main St- American Classic brand new pb

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CONDITION:  Brand new  paperback copy, fresh from the publisher - unopened, unread - gift quality.  400    pages,    130  x   210mm.   Published by  Dover.

“This is America—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat ond corn ond dairies and little groves.”
Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis knew the American heartland as few other writers have. He both loved and despised the small towns of America, and the tension between those feelings permeates Main Street, perhaps his most famous novel and the work that established him as a major American author.
The setting of Main Street is Gopher Prairie, a bastion of prosaic, small- minded, middle-class values. Its newest inhabitant is the beautiful young Carol Kennicott, just married to the town doctor. Carol is an idealist, inspired by a vision of crusading reform: she dreams of singlehandedly transforming her adopted hometown into an oasis of beauty, refinement and culture. But Carol is no match for Gopher Prairie’s deeply rooted provincialism, and the place is quite impervious to her bettering efforts. Her ill-fated struggle to overcome the complacency, bigotry and hypocrisy of this one small town becomes Lewis’s devastating, satiric take on all small towns.
Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1930) and Main Street was the work that, upon its 1920 publication, first won him serious critical recognition. The novel is an American classic.  Unabridged Dover (1999) republication of a standard edition.

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