Main Street
- ISBN-10
- 150287220X
- ISBN-13
- 9781502872203
- Series
- Main Street
- Pages
- 451
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1920
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier and Son Corporation
- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
Description
Main Street (1920), Lewis's first triumph, was a phenomenal event in American publishing and cultural history. Lewis's idealistic, imaginative heroine, Carol Kennicott, longs "to get [her] hands on one of these prairie towns and make it beautiful," but when her doctor husband brings her to Gopher Prairie, she finds that the romance of the American frontier has dwindled to the drab reality of the American Middle West. Carol first struggles against and then flees the social tyrannies and cultural emptiness of Gopher Prairie, only to submit at last to the conventions of village life. The great romantic satire of its decade, Main Street is a wry, sad, funny account of a woman who attempts to challenge the hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of her community.
