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Arrowsmith was awarded the pulitzer prize for literature. She marries will kennicott, a doctor, who is a smalltown boy at heart. Largely a satire of american culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middleclass american life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity. Lewiss remarkable 1929 satirical novel about millionaire auto manufacturer sam dodsworth, who journeys to europe with his new wife, is brought to life in a straightforward yet entirely enjoyable perf. Sinclair lewis was born in 1885 in sauk centre, minnesota, and graduated from yale university in 1908. This complex and rather divisive character is an interesting one to. Read in english by mark nelson carol milford, a collegeeducated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is selfsufficient working as a.
Lewis described in a letter to his publisher how he is all of us americans at 46, prosperous but worried, wanting passionately to seize something more than motor cars and a house. It won the 1926 pulitzer prize which lewis declined. He attended yale university, where he was editor of the literary magazine, and. Paul, minnesota, marries smalltown doctor will kennicott, she suddenly finds herself transplanted to. Born february 7, 1885, in the village of sauk centre, minnesota, sinclair lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two older siblings, fred born 1875 and claude born 1878.
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