Arrowsmith - Softcover

Lewis, Sinclair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451516710 ISBN 13: 9780451516718

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1961

Synopsis

Sinclair Lewis, o primeiro norte-americano a receber o Prêmio Nobel de literatura, compõe um retrato singular da ambição humana na alvorada da medicina moderna, esbanjando uma mordaz veia satírica e um senso de humor de precisão cirúrgica. Na sua juventude no interior dos Estados Unidos, Martin Arrowsmith passava o tempo folheando um exemplar de Anatomia de Gray no consultório do velho médico beberrão de quem era assistente. Os diferentes caminhos à frente de Martin em sua jornada rumo à realização pessoal dão a tona deste romance escrito na alvorada da medicina moderna. O agora recém-formado Doutor Arrowsmith se vê às voltas com as perspectivas de se tornar um pacato médico de interior, suar a camisa em um hospital público de cidade grande, dedicar-se à pesquisa farmacêutica em um grande laboratório ou à busca altruísta pela cura de uma pandemia tropical, e a lista segue. Cada fracasso o ensina algo a evitar na tentativa seguinte. Cada direção o coloca diante de novos mentores, afetos e desafetos, numa colorida galeria de personagens engraçadíssimos.

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Review

As the son and grandson of physicians, Sinclair Lewis had a store of experiences and imparted knowledge to draw upon for Arrowsmith.Published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Martin Arrowsmith, a rather ordinary fellow who gets his first taste of medicine at 14 as an assistant to the drunken physician in his home town. It is Leora Tozer who makes Martin's life extraordinary. With vitality and love, she urges him beyond the confines of the mundane to risk answering his true calling as a scientist and researcher. Not even her tragic death can extinguish her spirit or her impact on Martin's life.

About the Author

Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair’s socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, and in the period from Ann Vickers (1933) to the posthumously published World So Wide (1951) Lewis wrote ten novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street, a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, and after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451516710
• ISBN 13: 9780451516718
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 438