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portada The Job: An American Novel
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
216
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Weight
0.32 kg.
ISBN13
9781636377254

The Job: An American Novel

Sinclair Lewis (Author) · Lewis Sinclair (Author) · Bibliotech Press · Paperback

The Job: An American Novel - Lewis Sinclair

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Synopsis "The Job: An American Novel"

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers.On a parallel track, her quest for traditional romance and love is important but her unique role as a working woman, doing a man's job, makes it tough to find an appropriate suitor.Una is on track to marry Walter Babson, who appears to be a good man but lacks the excitement of her eventual husband, Edward Schwirtz. He is a salesman with all the charm necessary to win her heart, but the marriage is doomed from the start. Una eventually determines to divorce him, which is also scandalous for the time. As the book closes, Una emerges triumphant in both her career and her personal life.The novel was published before Lewis achieved any significant fame and provides insights on working women as well as the unique nature (for the time) of having a woman as the lead character. (wikipedia.org)
Lewis Sinclair
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Sinclair Lewis, el primer estadounidense en ganar el Premio Nobel de Literatura, nació en Sauk Centre, Minnesota, en 1885. Aunque se enorgullecía de sus raíces en el Medio Oeste, viajó extensamente y se interesó por diversos aspectos de la sociedad estadounidense, desde los negocios y la medicina hasta la religión y la vida en pueblos pequeños. Su preocupación por cuestiones de género, raza y los desposeídos en la sociedad hacen que su obra siga siendo vital y pertinente hoy en día. Como escribió Sheldon Norman Grebstein en su obra Sinclair Lewis, Lewis «fue la conciencia de su generación y bien podría ser la conciencia de la nuestra. Su análisis de los Estados Unidos de la década de 1920 es válido para los Estados Unidos de hoy. Sus profecías se han convertido en nuestras verdades y sus miedos en nuestros problemas más cruciales». Sinclair Lewis fue nominado al Premio Pulitzer por Main Street y Babbitt y ganó el premio por Arrowsmith (aunque lo rechazó). Fue miembro del Instituto Nacional de Artes y Letras y de la Academia Estadounidense de Artes y Letras. Murió en Roma en 1951.
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