Main Street (HBJ Modern Classic) - Hardcover

Lewis, Sinclair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151555478 ISBN 13: 9780151555475

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1989

Synopsis

In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. Main Street attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th Century midwestern village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty small-minded bigotry. Lewis's complex and compelling work established him as an important character in American literature.

From the Back Cover:

This famous novel of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0151555478
• ISBN 13: 9780151555475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496