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￯﾿ﾽThis is America￯﾿ﾽa town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves.￯﾿ﾽ So Sinclair Lewis￯﾿ﾽrecipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer￯﾿ﾽprefaces his novel Main Street. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty.