{"product_id":"2026100010349-secondhand-main-street","title":"Main Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the suffocating heart of small-town America, Carol Milford — an idealistic, college-educated young woman — marries a country doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, only to find herself imprisoned by the town's complacent conformity, intellectual barrenness, and unyielding social conventions. Main Street, first published in 1920, is Sinclair Lewis's blistering satirical chronicle of provincial American life, laying bare the self-satisfaction and cultural stagnation that lurked beneath the wholesome façade of the Midwest's booming small towns.\n\nLewis, who would go on to become the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, writes with a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching sociological eye, presenting Gopher Prairie as a microcosm of a nation simultaneously proud of its ordinariness and hostile to any disruption of it. The novel argues, with devastating precision, that the true enemy of the human spirit is not grand villainy but rather the quiet, crushing tyranny of mediocrity — a theme that resonated so powerfully upon publication that it became an instant cultural sensation. Carol's restless struggle for beauty, meaning, and self-determination still raises the question that haunts every idealist who has ever looked at their surroundings and dared to imagine something more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50813037773019,"sku":"2026100010349-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4d513970-e3de-4929-a681-0348035d4f0f.png?v=1792372120","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010349-secondhand-main-street","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}