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Synopsis
George Follansbee Babbitt is a middle-aged realtor in Zenith, Ohio. Unimaginative, self-important, and vaguely dissatisfied, he tries to alter the pattern of his life by flirting with liberalism and having an affair - only to find that his dread of ostracism is greater then his desire for escape. Lewis's seventh novel gave the language a word for a smug person who conforms to middle-class conventions.
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Review
"[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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