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It Can´t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
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Description for It Can´t Happen Here
Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294.
'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into ... Read more
'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241310663
SKU
9780241310663
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About Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Minnesota. He attended Yale University and subsequently worked as a reporter and editor. In 1920, he had a major breakthrough with Main Street (1920), which was followed by Babbitt (1922) and many other successful novels. He won the Nobel Prize in 1930 and in 1935 wrote the bestselling It Can't Happen Here, a ... Read more
Reviews for It Can´t Happen Here
Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States
New Yorker
Eighty years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary
Salon
An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs
Guardian
You can't read Lewis' novel today without flashes of Trumpian recognition
Slate
New Yorker
Eighty years later the novel feels frighteningly contemporary
Salon
An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs
Guardian
You can't read Lewis' novel today without flashes of Trumpian recognition
Slate