Beschreibung
Dust jacket large chunks missing from edges, unclipped. Green cloth with bright titling labels. No ownership marks.Frontis portrait plate.205 pages clean and tight. "SINCLAIR LEWIS is the quintessence of the United States, set off by a special genius but not transmuted from the general type. Those inquiring foreigners who in the eighteenth century would have sought out Benjamin Franklin as the essential American, or in the nineteenth, Mark Twain, would in the twentieth find what they were looking for in Sinclair Lewis. "As to flesh and blood, Mr. Lewis has the long, heroic angularity of Uncle Sam, the color of a torch, the mobile impatience which comes from quick and restless nerves. In any imaginable society he would be as noticeable as a bashful cyclone. He enters a room with a diffident insolence, bracing himself against what lies in wait for him. After all his harsh campaigns, he has still an eager, shy desire to please. Even while, in the high voice of a tall man, he talks with this person or that small group, his darting eyes watch every other possible observer. Those who know him least imagine he is demanding admiration. Those who know him best understand he is only hoping for affection. "Experience has not insulated him with protective callus. His senses are eternally on guard. He cannot be inattentive without being unconscious. Conscious, he is a man without a skin. That is, he seems to wear a skin which is all eyes, all ears, all nerves of sense. Life beats on him like suns, drums, hammers, like searchlights, calliopes, stinging nettles." Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 131095
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: Sinclair Lewis a Biographical Sketch
Verlag: Doubleday Doran,, Garden City, USA
Erscheinungsdatum: 1933
Einband: Hard Cover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair
Auflage: First Edition.
