Pierre or the Ambiguities - Softcover

Lewis, Sinclair

 
9780451518972: Pierre or the Ambiguities

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"

Book Description

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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