Free Air

Name: Free Air
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Sinclair Lewis
ISBN: 9781455100729

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Narrator: Barrett Whitener

Unabridged: 7 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Claire Boltwood and her father drive their roadster cross country, exposing themselves to all the perils of early motoring. But with both the Boltwoods, the greatest distance to be overcome is the social one, between their upperclass society and an unpretentious mechanic named Milt.

About Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. Born in Minnesota, he attended Yale University but left before graduation to work in Upton Sinclair's socialist colony at Helicon Hall in Englewood, New Jersey. Unable to make a living as a freelance writer, he returned to Yale and earned his degree. In 1914, he published his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man. But it was not until his sixth novel, Main Street, that he won recognition as an important American novelist. His other major works include Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, and It Can't Happen Here, which he also wrote as a play. Lewis was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of books and innumerable articles throughout his career.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anthea

Free Air was such a pleasant surprise. In fact, it was a breath of fresh country air. As a reader, from the first page I felt like I too was driving a vintage car — one from 1919, when the novel was set, and tackling the winding and rough roads on the way to Seattle. The story focuses on the female......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

I think it was Raymond Chandler who said that when he was writing a story and the plot began to drag, he would have a man come through the door with a gun. Sinclair Lewis did something very similar at the end of each segment of his 1917 serial Free Air by inserting an abrupt meeting between one of h......more

Goodreads review by Virginia

It's fascinating to read novels written in their time especially when literary commentary is included. These works are now 'historical' novels, no affectation, no interpretation, just clean recording of what was happening then and what society's response was, meaning Lewis's. In this novel, publishe......more