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Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. — "Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780553213744
ISBN-10: 0553213741
Publication Date: 1/1/1982
Pages: 432
Rating:
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 27 ratings
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 0
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I get it, I get it....men and capitalism are evil, put down your hammer, my head hurts.

I did enjoy this novel for describing life during the tumultuous social changes of the industrial revolution and I appreciate the impact this novel must have enjoyed when it came out. I did not enjoy the heavy handed writing and messaging.
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Dreiser is a consummate author. His writing keeps me so involved that everything else fades away.
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The story of the vicissitudes attendant upon the publisher's suppression, in 1901, of Sister Carrie is the history of America's emergence from the fog of suspicion and fear of realism in the novel.


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