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Main Street by Brooke Allen, Sinclair Lewis (2003, Paperback) 
Main Street by Brooke Allen, Sinclair Lewis (2003, Paperback)

 
Main Street by Brooke Allen, Sinclair Lewis (2003, Paperback)

Author: Brooke Allen, Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication Date: 2003-12-01
Series: BARNES & NOBLE CLASSICS SERIES
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1593080360
ISBN-13: 9781593080365
Product ID: EPID6042049
Description: Carol Kennicott marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, hoping that her idealistic belief in social reform can be realized. Instead, she observes firsthand the stifling realities of small town life--cultural n...
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Carol Kennicott marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, hoping that her idealistic belief in social reform can be realized. Instead, she observes firsthand the stifling realities of small town life--cultural narrowness, smugness, petty cruelties--and finds that her marriage can't survive what she learns. Sinclair Lewis's best-selling 1920 novel was controversial in its time because of its gritty refusal to romanticize small-town life--one of America's fondest myths.

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Publication Date:2003-12-01
Series:BARNES & NOBLE CLASSICS SERIES

Size
Length:560 pages
Height:6.8 in
Width:4.0 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:11.2 oz

Industry Reviews
"'Main Street' is being vaselined by the newspaper[s]...and pawed by the women's clubs, not because it happens to be a very competent piece of writing, but simply and solely because it presents an extremely acidulous picture of human existence in a small American town, and thus caresses the vanity of all those who are able to thank God that they do not live in such a town, and are not as Dr. Lewis' folk are....Here, of course, I do not sniff at Herr von Lewis' achievement. On the contrary, I seize the opportunity to say again, as I said a good while back, that 'Main Street' is a very excellent piece of work, boldly imagined and often brilliantly executed....Books as good as 'Main Street' should be admired on a plane above mere prejudices...the cockney should not be so ready to laugh at the poor yokel: he is quite as thumping an ass himself."
Baltimore Sun - H. L. Mencken (01/03/1921)

"It is not just MAIN STREET'S heroine, who longs to get out of Gopher Prairie; it is the reader as well. And yet this novel, with all its vacillations and ambiguities of artistic purpose, has a reach of greatness to it, a sense of human softness and helpless witness. The popular success of the book derived, my suspicion is..., from the identification of many female readers with the heroine."
New Yorker - John Updike

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