THE PRODIGAL PARENTS
by Sinclair Lewis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No
- Seller
-
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
The Prodigal Parents (1938) is about the revolt of the parents against the revolt of youth as exemplified by a typical middle-class family of four. Fred Cornplow, shrewd middle-class, middle-aged realist, gradually wakes to find that his two children think of him as intellectually obsolete, as a convenience, and as a walking bank account to whom they need return neither affection nor thoughtfulness. With his genius for dramatizing thoughts that are on the threshold of every mind, Lewis writes with affectionate sympathy of the problems of the successful man, his children, and his wife.
This is a first edition, published by Doubleday Doran in 1938. It is red boards,with an impressed design on the cover and black type on the spine. The spine has fading but no other major wear. The inside front cover has an impressive-looking signature on it, in purple ink. Other than that, it's in perfect condition, although the covers could use a once-over with some Absorene.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 298
- Title
- THE PRODIGAL PARENTS
- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Near Perfect, see notes
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fred Cornplow
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Fiction;
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