Synopsis
Sinclair Lewis's fictional hero, Babbitt, has become the symbol of the small businessman who is too caught up in gaining material and social prosperity to be able to do what he truly wants, when that involves non-conformist behaviour.
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"[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis's work excels."--Virginia Woolf
[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis s work excels. Virginia Woolf"
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From the author of It Can't Happen Here, a satirical portrait of a town obsessed by capitalism and the 'values' of the marketplace
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New American Library/Signet Classics, New York, 1980
ISBN 10: 0451518977
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