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Main Steet. But the intellectual strut and prosodic perplexities of many of the scoffers left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed...
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