Free Air
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3.7 • 79 Ratings
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Publisher Description
One of the earliest open roads tales, originally serialized for the Saturday Evening Post. Fashionable and single Clair Boltwood joines her father on a drive cross-country to Seattle with the hope that the long trip will help her avoid marrying her sophisticated New York beau.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Travel from Minnesota to Seattle brings an upper-class family down to earth in this early effort from Lewis.
Customer Reviews
Free Air
I didn’t know Sinclair Lewis had it in him to write this fun, a quite funny travel tale, as well as the story of a young lady finding what is truly important to her!
A young woman’s road adventure became a love story and a lucid examination of social classes.
Very early automobile drive through the North west USA. A young woman driving herself and her father. The are new wealth from Brooklyn Heights NYC. A young man sees they drive through his small town and decides he will drive to Seattle too. They meet on the road he assists the woman he loves and it evolves into a story of love and inhuman social class distinctions. Can love survive class?
Very good early Lewis. I totally enjoyable read.
Gumbo
The first chapter is a complete mess, from describing food & driving in the same context to the confusing sentence structure... I couldn't get past the second page & re-read page 1 four different times in an attempt to read this book:( The summary looked interesting, but in this case... Looks are very deceiving.