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    Free Air (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Sinclair Lewis

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    In this paean to the democratizing effects of the automobile, published in 1919, Brooklyn railroad heiress Claire Boltwood motors from Minnesota to a vacation with cousins in Seattle. After down-to-earth auto mechanic Milt Daggett rescues her vehicle from a mud hole, she gradually begins to change her snobbish ways.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateAug 30, 2011
    ISBN9781411441101
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    Sinclair Lewis

    Nobel Prize-winning writer Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) is best known for novels like Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith (for which he was awarded but declined the Pulitzer Prize), and Elmer Gantry. A writer from his youth, Lewis wrote for and edited the Yale Literary Magazine while a student, and started his literary career writing popular stories for magazines and selling plots to other writers like Jack London. Lewis’s talent for description and creating unique characters won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, making him the first American writer to win the prestigious award. Considered to be one of the “greats” of American literature, Lewis was honoured with a Great Americans series postage stamp, and his work has been adapted for both stage and screen.

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    • 4/5
      My third Sinclair Lewis novel after “Arrowsmith” and “Main Street”, and I really like his portrayals of early 20th century America and Americans. Here we find Claire, driving her father from New York to Seattle, and Milt, a rather unsophisticated man she encounters on the way, who determines to look after her and captures her heart, but finds himself out of his depth. Well written and very perceptive on the effect of our social surroundings on our character and behaviour. An unfortunate animal death notwithstanding, a fine book, and an author I will continue to look out for.
    • 3/5
      Good enough to read straight through. A nostalgic tale about America before WWI with a sweet old fashioned love story.
    • 5/5
      This is one fun read! Fascinatingly old fashion. Sinclair Lewis has a glib voice that draws you in and keeps you wanting to see what happens next.