BABBITT

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat” response. Male menopause wasn’t a pre-Great Depression term, but | would say George has all the symptoms. At a pudgy, balding forty-six he looks at his life, wife, family and business. He sees himself as a pretty successful businessman, but when Tanis, the lonely widow, has a leaky roof, he sees an opportunity for perhaps a more fulfilling relationship then he has at home. Add to Tanis a foray into radical politics, and we are about to witness an emotional and financial train wreck with Babbitt at the throttle. This is along story, but well worth listening to. Human nature hasn’t changed much in the last ninety years.

Total running time: 13:25:53 Read by Mike Vendetti

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Cover design by Kathryn Delaney in the public domain Portrait of Edmund Gosse by John Singer Sargent

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