MAIN STREET
by Sinclair Lewis
Taste attributes: dramacomedyhistoricalfresh & originalrealisticlinearglossyemotive & stirringsocial commentarytroubled leadsempowerment/personal growth
Boxlist takeInventive and grounded: a novel that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like surprises over comfort.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.6 / 5
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About This Book
The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality.
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- Sinclair Lewis
- Published
- 1920
- Pages
- 451
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- Open Library
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