Main Street

Name: Main Street
Brand: GLOBE PEQUOT
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By: Sinclair Lewis

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Paperback | 30 May 1996 | Edition Number 1

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459 Pages

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14+

Grade
9+

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21.59 x 13.97 x 3.18

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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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Lewis's unflinchingly honest portrayal of 1920's America is a fascinating critique of provincial America that reveals the contradictions at the heart of American identity. The tale focuses on Gopher Prairie, a small mid-West town that, like many others, has risen up from the fertile plains to become a town whose 'main street is the continuation of main streets everywhere'. Carol, Lewis's rebellious, irrepressible heroine, marries Doc Will Kennicott and moves to Gopher Prairie with high ideals of 'making the town beautiful' but soon finds herself suffocated by the oppressive hold of small-town life. Grappling with her conscience and her duties to her husband and young son, she turns revolutionary with far-reaching consequences. Lewis exposes the desires and fears of American society while never losing sight of the high ideals on which America was founded. (Kirkus UK)

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