It would also trigger a decade of uninterrupted success that would hit its climax in 1930 when Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. That would all change when Main Street hit shelves in 1920 and sold 250,000 copies in its first year-a crazy huge number for the 1920s. Like Carol, Sinclair Lewis was no stranger to disappointment: he had written five novels prior to Main Street and hadn't succeeded with any of them. Well, that's what Carol Kennicott feels like in Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and this book is all about exploring the ways that people try to cope with unsatisfying lives. Have you ever felt like your life was totally boring? If so, what did you do to try and change things? What if you felt like you couldn't change things because you were stuck living in a boring town with a boring spouse and nasty old ladies telling you to go to church all the time?
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