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by Sinclair Lewis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New edition edition (1 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0486406555
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486406558
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Main Street is a mercilessly realistic picture of 20th century America - its desires and whims, foibles, passions and hates. It stands as one of Sinclair Lewis'' greatest and most famous novels. Lewis was the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An accurate description of the Mainstreets of America, 3 Jan 1999
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Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street" deals honestly with the negative aspects of small town life. In the book, Carol Kennicott, a big city girl marries Dr. Kennicott, and they move to the small town of Gopher Prarie. Carol is an idealist, but her efforts to reform the town are met with ignorance. The citizens of Gopher Prarie are convinced that they lead a utopian life, and that poverty and ugliness does not exist in their town. Carol is subjected to gossip, greed, and dullness in her journey through Gopher Prarie. I think this book is an accurate description of many small towns, but it deals too negatively with small towns. I have visited many times Lewis's hometown of Sauk Centre, after which Gopher Prarie was modeled, and found none of the drab buildings and narrow minded people that Lewis described. Howver, this novel is a classic example of how our own ignorance prevents us from seeing our true surrondings. This book is a real eye opener.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you, Mr. Lewis, 9 Oct 2000
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Carol Milford, an enlightened, beautiful, young woman gets married. She thinks she is marrying Dr. Kennicott, she doesn't know that she is also marrying his town, Gopher Prairie. She tries to love the town and tries hard. She wants to improve things, change, reform. She is faced with stone walls. And ugly ones at that. They resent her, they don't take her seriously, they call her crazy, flippant, foolish, snobbish, arrogant, silly, light woman, bad woman and a lot of other things. She alternates between wanting to give up and to continue. At times she is lazy, diligent, hopeless, hopeful, resigned, rebellious and often lonely. I read Carol's story as if I was living it. Half way through the book, I was giving her advice: "Run for your life!" or "Hang in there!". Sinclair Lewis is a brilliant narrator. He tells the story of Gopher Prairie with wit, charm and sarcastic humour. I believe that he was the first male feminist of America. The next book I'll be reading is Babbitt.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling, 13 Mar 2008
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I found this book really compelling, the story of a bright woman from the city who marries the doctor in a Minnesota town. The small-mindedness of her fellow residents is pitilessly portrayed, as are their repeated efforts to keep her spirit crushed. The main character, with all her faults, is convincing and sympathetic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Reminded me of Middlemarch - and of The Women's Room
I bought this novel after reading Sinclair Lewis's gripping story of a fascist takeover of the US, `It Can't Happen Here'. Read more
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For Sinclair Lewis, his country is `a hope that is boundless. What is its future? A future of cities and factory smut? Homes universal and secure? Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Excruciatingly dull novel that has notabel literary merit
MAIN STREET is considered Lewis's Song of Songs, or his masterpiece. Being a writer, if this was my ultimate achievement, I would be thoroughly depressed and forsake writing and... Read more
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