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The Job: The American Novel

by Sinclair Lewis

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ISBN13: 9780803279483
ISBN10: 0803279485
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Publisher Comments:

Three years before the civic-minded Carol Kennicott came to life in Main Street, Una Golden was confronting the male dinosaurs of business. Like Carol, the heroine of "The Job" is one of Sinclair Lewis's most fully realized creations. Originally published in 1917, "The Job" was his first controversial novel. A "working girl" in New York City, Una Golden--caught in the dilemmas of marriage or career, husband or office, birth control or motherhood--is the prototype of the businesswoman of popular and literary culture.

Review:

"Sane, generous, well-balanced, above all real, [the novel] interprets by presenting this world as it is."-New York Times
 
(New York Times)

Review:

"Lewis was consciously exploring [in The Job] the choices and pressures that women felt personally and socially during the first third of the twentieth century. And, yes, this fictional exploration still has relevance emotionally and politically because the choices for and pressures on women have not been significantly modified."-Nan Bauer Maglin, Massachusetts Review
(Massachusetts Review)

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Sinclair Lewiss "first distinguished work of fiction."-James D. Hart, Oxford Companion to American Literature
 
(James D. Hart, Oxford Companion to American Literature)

About the Author

Introducing this Bison Books edition of The Job is Maureen Honey, a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II and the editor of Breaking the Ties That Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman, 1915–1930.

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ISBN:
9780803279483
Subtitle:
The American Novel
Designed:
Honey, Marueen
Introduction:
Honey, Maureen
Designed:
Honey, Marueen
Author:
Lewis, Sinclair
Introduction:
Honey, Maureen
Author:
Honey, Maureen
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Location:
Lincoln :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
New York
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
Subject:
Women white collar workers.
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:
Classics
Series Volume:
v. V
Publication Date:
April 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
327
Dimensions:
8.00x5.37x.80 in. .82 lbs.

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