This has long been on my list of books to read…I remember reading and loving Main Street as a graduate student. Sinclair Lewis is not was widely read as he was a generation ago… truly a shame when you consider his keen observations of human nature and his barbed wit that remains evergreen.
Lewis’s title character is the American Everyman: social climber yet longs to just be one of the boys, obsessed with money and status, attention and thrill seeking, and yet we sympathize with him because he is a mirror in which we see ourselves. Update some of Babbitt’s fashions and pastimes and this story is still as relevant to these ‘20s as is was to the ‘20s of the previous century. This book made me laugh and think. 5 stars.