Babbitt

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  • Author: Lewis, Sinclair
    Contributor:

    McNamara, Carson

    Summary:

    George Babbitt is a successful realtor and proud member of the Booster’s club, but his conventional life has left him unsatisfied. Babbitt abandons his old life for one of bohemian values but slowly realizes that even rebellion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Lewis’s stinging rebuke of middle-class conformity and predatory realtors remains as relevant today as it was 90 years ago.

    Original Publisher: San Francisco, CA , Plympton
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781682280829

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McNamara, Carson

Abstract

George Babbitt is a successful realtor and proud member of the Booster’s club, but his conventional life has left him unsatisfied. Babbitt abandons his old life for one of bohemian values but slowly realizes that even rebellion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Lewis’s stinging rebuke of middle-class conformity and predatory realtors remains as relevant today as it was 90 years ago.

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San Francisco, CA

Plympton

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