{"product_id":"9781847498779","title":"Babbitt : Fully annotated edition with over 300 notes (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Sinclair Lewis","description":"In the   Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged estate agent George F. Babbitt   appears to have achieved the American dream to its fullest: he is successful   at work, comfortably off, exceedingly well fed, has a wife and children, a   motor car and a neat house with a neat yard, and is a proud member of all the   right clubs - in short, he lacks nothing to be happy. Or does he? As we   follow his humdrum daily routine and startling events begin to unfold around   him, we discover that all is not well in Babbitt's world: his moral   foundations are shaking, and he can't help harbouring rebellious dreams of   escape and romance.        A trenchant satire on consumeristic society and an indictment of the   fatuous ideals of middle America in the Roaring Twenties, Babbitt - the   crowning achievement of Sinclair Lewis, winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in   Literature - questions the attractions of materialistic fulfilment, at the   same time laying bare the hollowness of social respectability and blind   conformism.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307837600117,"sku":"9781847498779","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847498779.jpg?v=1762805495","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781847498779","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}