Jacket Notes:This famous novel of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego.
Strand Notes
An HBJ Modern Classic. First published in 1920, this work has, for more than seventy years, been one of the most influential and widely read books of our time. With uncanny resonance, this landmark novel of life on MainStreet, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego. 486p.
Description
In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.