Main Street (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780486406558)

In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and the 1920 publication of Main Street brought him his first serious critical recognition. Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis knew the American heartland as few other writers have. He both loved and despised small towns, and the tension between those feelings permeates this classic novel.
The setting is Gopher Prairie, a bastion of prosaic, small-minded, middle-class values. Its newest inhabitant is the beautiful young Carol Kennicott, who dreams of transforming her adopted hometown into an oasis of beauty, refinement, and culture. But Carol is no match for the town's provincialism, and her struggle to overcome the complacency, bigotry, and hypocrisy of Gopher Prairie becomes the author's devastating and satiric take on all small towns.

Author: Sinclair Lewis
ISBN-10: 0486406555
ISBN-13: 9780486406558
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2016
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.17w x 1.01d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.6
Point Value: 30
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 5991 / Main Street


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 101

About the Author
Novelist, short story writer, and playwright Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was a native of Sauk Center, Wisconsin, and intimately acquainted with the small towns of the American heartland. In 1930 he became the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.