Main Street (1920) - Sinclair Lewis
Category: Classic
Narrator: Brian Emerson
Tags: Classic, Contemporary, Adults, Historical Fiction
Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins Release date: 02-10-05 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., The first of Sinclair Lewiss great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. When Carol Milford, a young, liberated woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, marries small-town doctor Will Kennicott, she suddenly finds herself transplanted to Gopher Prairie. Horrified by her new home, an ugly backwater community, she decides its time the town made a few changes., The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which Americas turn-of-the-century emancipated woman found herself. The story of an idealistic young womans frustrated attempts to change the set ways of her small town, Main Street has been hailed as one of the essential literary satires of the American scene., Lewiss portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a
