Lewis Sinclair: 46 books

Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited cosmopolitan young woman, reared in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state capital. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart. When they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Carol is appalled...

Babbitt is professionally successful as a realtor. He lives with only the vaguest awareness of the lives and deaths of his contemporaries. Much of his energy in the beginning is spent on climbing the social ladder through booster functions, real estate sales, and making good with various dignitaries.

A story that deals with a successful white man who well into his life discovers that he is part black, quite a controversial subject for 1947. A very honest and masterful tale of a man trying to connect with his "blackness" and the society and heritage to which he belongs, including insights into the racism of the time and the relationships between blacks and whites. 

Ein Schlüsselroman zum Verständnis der modernen USA, ihrer tiefen Ambivalenz und inneren Zerrissenheit Carol Kennicott, eine junge Frau aus Neuengland, hat es in ein Provinznest verschlagen, deren Einwohner, so merkt sie rasch, völlig anders ticken als sie. Um keinen Preis wollen sie von...