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001 on1008938715
003 OCoLC
005 20210318142139.0
008 171102s1980 nyu 000 f eng c
040 $aALAUL$beng$erda$cALAUL$dOCLCF$dVBO$dOCLCA
020 $a0451523660$q(pbk.)
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035 $a(OCoLC)1008938715
050 4 $aPS3523.E94$bB3 1980
082 00 $a[Fic]
100 1 $aLewis, Sinclair,$d1885-1951,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBabbitt /$cSinclair Lewis ; with an afterword by Mark Schorer.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSignet Classic,$c©1980.
300 $a327 pages ;$c18 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aWith his portrait of George F. Babbit, the conniving, prosperous real-estate man from Zenith, Sinclair Lewis created one of the ugliest, but most convincing, figures in American fiction -- the total conformist. Babbitt's demons are power in his community and the self-esteem he can only receive from others. In his attempts to reconcile these aspirations, he is loyal to whoever serves his need of the moment: time and again he proves an opportunist in business practice and in domestic affairs. Outwardly he conforms with "zip and zowie," is a "big booster" before the public eye; inwardly he converges day by day upon the utter emptiness of his soul -- too filled with rationalizations and sentimentality to sense his own corruption. -- Publisher description.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zMinnesota$vFiction.
650 0 $aMarried women$zMinnesota$vFiction.
650 0 $aMiddle-aged men$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aBusinesspeople$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aConformity$vFiction.
650 0 $aSatire.
650 0 $aPsychological fiction.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century.
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650 7 $aMen$xFiction.$2sears
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
700 1 $aSchorer, Mark,$d1908-1977,$ewriter of afterword.
994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 5 OTHER HOLDINGS