Main Street (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789355222091)

The first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and-worst of all-the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds. Lewis's portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Street a complex and compelling work and established Lewis as an important figure in twentieth-century American literature.

Author: Sinclair Lewis
ISBN-10: 9355222092
ISBN-13: 9789355222091
Publisher: Classy Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2022
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d

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