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Free Air

First published: 1919
Pages: 263

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Miss Boltwood of Brooklyn is Lost in the Mud
10:37
Claire Escapes From Respectability
16:30
A Young Man in a Raincoat
21:32
A Room Without
17:06
Release Brakes--Shift to Third
25:21
The Land of Billowing Clouds
12:02
The Great American Frying Pan
14:58
The Discovery of Canned Shrimp and Hesperides
24:03
The Man With Agate Eyes
14:01
The Curious Incident of the Hillside Road
8:59
Sagebrush Tourists of the Great Highway
13:42
The Wonders of Nature with All Modern Improvements
12:21
Adventurers by Firelight
14:59
The Beast of the Corral
7:17
The Black Day of the Voyage
15:45
The Spectacles of Authority
15:00
The Vagabond in Green
17:18
The Fallacy of Romance
8:03
The Night of Endless Pines
14:32
The Free Woman
17:58
The Mine of Lost Souls
11:28
Across the Roof of the World
10:53
The Grael in a Backyard in Yakima
5:47
Her Own People
16:35
The Abyssinian Prince
21:04
A Class in Engineering and Omelets
11:15
The Viciousness of Nice Things
14:40
The Morning Coat of Mr. Hudson B. Riggs
13:39
The Enemy Love
8:38
The Virtuous Plotters
4:27
The Kitchen Intimate
28:28
The Cornfield Aristocrat
18:51
Tooth-Mug Tea
21:06
The Beginning of a Story
13:05

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About this book

Sinclair Lewis sends a well-off young woman across the American continent behind the wheel in this 1919 comic romance, one of the earliest road-trip novels. Claire Boltwood, weary of an over-managed courtship and anxious about her overworked father, ships her roadster to Minneapolis and points it west toward cousins in Seattle, her father riding along as chaperone. On the rough roads between Minnesota and the Pacific she keeps crossing paths with Milt Daggett, a small-town garage mechanic who follows her across the country with a cat named Vere de Vere for company. The real obstacle is not the mud or the mountains but the gulf of class between them. Written the year before Main Street made Lewis famous, it is a bright, observant story about self-reliance and the distance between how Americans talk about equality and how they live it.

About the author

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885 to 1951) was an American novelist famous for skewering the conformity and hypocrisy of small-town and business America in the 1920s. His run of major novels earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, the first awarded to an American.