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Main Street, a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis. This indictment of the narrow-minded complacency of small-town America is a satirical account of the stifling grip of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, on Carol Milford, an intelligent young woman who marries a plodding local doctor. Her efforts to inject the townspeople with some of her own vitality are thwarted, and she runs away with a lover, only to be drawn back into the soul-destroying community she tried to leave behind.
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