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portada Main Street  (Laminated Hardback With Jacket)
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
428
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781998736850

Main Street (Laminated Hardback With Jacket)

Lewis Sinclair (Author) · Revive Classics · Hardcover

Main Street (Laminated Hardback With Jacket) - Lewis Sinclair

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Synopsis "Main Street (Laminated Hardback With Jacket)"

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket Restless for adventure and meaning, Carol Kennicott dares to believe she can transform a sleepy Midwestern town into a beacon of culture and sophistication. But when she arrives in Gopher Prairie with grand visions of progress, she finds herself up against an unyielding wall of small-town tradition and quiet complacency. As she fights to inject beauty and change into a place that resists both, Carol is forced to confront not just the town's stubbornness, but the limitations of her own ideals. Sharp, satirical, and deeply human, her journey is a battle between ambition and reality in a world that clings to the familiar.With biting satire and unflinching realism, Main Street shattered the romanticized image of small-town America, exposing its resistance to progress and deep-seated conformity. Sinclair Lewis's groundbreaking novel became a cultural lightning rod, sparking debates about the limits of individualism and the suffocating expectations of community life. Published in 1920, it captured the restless spirit of a changing nation, resonating with those who felt trapped between tradition and modernity. Its sharp critique of provincialism helped Lewis become the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, cementing Main Street as a landmark in literary history.
Lewis Sinclair
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Sinclair Lewis, el primer estadounidense en ganar el Premio Nobel de Literatura, nació en Sauk Centre, Minnesota, en 1885. Aunque se enorgullecía de sus raíces en el Medio Oeste, viajó extensamente y se interesó por diversos aspectos de la sociedad estadounidense, desde los negocios y la medicina hasta la religión y la vida en pueblos pequeños. Su preocupación por cuestiones de género, raza y los desposeídos en la sociedad hacen que su obra siga siendo vital y pertinente hoy en día. Como escribió Sheldon Norman Grebstein en su obra Sinclair Lewis, Lewis «fue la conciencia de su generación y bien podría ser la conciencia de la nuestra. Su análisis de los Estados Unidos de la década de 1920 es válido para los Estados Unidos de hoy. Sus profecías se han convertido en nuestras verdades y sus miedos en nuestros problemas más cruciales». Sinclair Lewis fue nominado al Premio Pulitzer por Main Street y Babbitt y ganó el premio por Arrowsmith (aunque lo rechazó). Fue miembro del Instituto Nacional de Artes y Letras y de la Academia Estadounidense de Artes y Letras. Murió en Roma en 1951.
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