- Paperback: 327 pages
- Publisher: Bison Books; New edition edition (April 1 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0803279485
- ISBN-13: 978-0803279483
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.6 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #896,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sinclair Lewis''s "first distinguished work of fiction."—James D. Hart, Oxford Companion to American Literature
(James D. Hart Oxford Companion to American Literature )"Sinclair Lewis has one attribute of genius—sympathetic insight. . . . He has not only made a woman who works for her living the central figure of his story, he has insisted on doing so without sentimentality or melodrama or false pathos."—New Republic
(New Republic )"Sane, generous, well-balanced, above all real, [the novel interprets by presenting this world as it is."—New York Times
(New York Times )"Lewis was consciously exploring [in The Job the choices and pressures that women felt personally and socially during the first third of the twentieth century. And, yes, this fictional exploration still has relevance emotionally and politically because the choices for and pressures on women have not been significantly modified."—Nan Bauer Maglin, Massachusetts Review
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Three years before the civic-minded Carol Kennicott came to life in Main Street, Una Golden was confronting the male dinosaurs of business. Like Carol, the heroine of The Job is one of Sinclair Lewis's most fully realized creations. Originally published in 1917, The Job was his first controversial novel. A "working girl" in New York City, Una Golden—caught in the dilemmas of marriage or career, husband or office, birth control or motherhood—is the prototype of the businesswoman of popular and literary culture.
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A woman who lives the life that others have defined for her...,
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Sinclair Lewis should be looked upon as having keen insight into the plights of common man, much like Charles Dickens and the unusual ability to create universal, yet quirky, characters like the more modern Ann Tyler. "The Job" is no exception to the blending of these two authors. While not one of his best tales, it does depict the 'Universal Woman 0f 1910' in a helpless, tragic, confused yet faintly optimistic manner. Many readers complain of the tedious nature of some of Lewis's writings but, it is that tedium that the author is trying to convey to us. Life for the 'commoner' is a short series of happy and/or tragic events that are separated by long and nearly endless periods of boredom while feelings of uselessness and malaise pervade us all. In the end the reader will want to applaud and encourage our heroine at the novel's finish as she seems to make a final break into self-independence. But we are quickly brought back to the reality of the times in how Uma sees her overall social role and how she has always allowed society to define her future happiness for her. This is a sad, cyclical novel that depicts the inevitable unhappiness that life presents to all of us and how most simply march in the same barren place to the same monotonous drumbeat while we deceive ourselves into thinking that we are moving forward.......
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Decent account of Women in the workplace.,
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This review is from: The Job (Paperback)
Sinclair's first critically successful work has similar soundings to Main Street and Ann Vickers. The novel describes the adventures of Una Golden as she learns to survive the daily grind of working for a living in dead end jobs.Lewis vividly describes the dullness and hopelessness surrounding typical "women's work" in the early 1900's. Lewis also shows that marrying can also be a dead end in itself, especially when one marries to simply escape working. I liked this book quite a bit. However, it lacked the bite and suspense of Ann Vickers or even Main Street. This book should be read by Lewis fans or those with an interest in the early 20th century workplace.
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A woman who lives the life that others have defined for her...,
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Sinclair Lewis should be looked upon as having keen insight into the plights of common man, much like Charles Dickens and the unusual ability to create universal, yet quirky, characters like the more modern Ann Tyler. "The Job" is no exception to the blending of these two authors. While not one of his best tales, it does depict the 'Universal Woman 0f 1910' in a helpless, tragic, confused yet faintly optimistic manner. Many readers complain of the tedious nature of some of Lewis's writings but, it is that tedium that the author is trying to convey to us. Life for the 'commoner' is a short series of happy and/or tragic events that are separated by long and nearly endless periods of boredom while feelings of uselessness and malaise pervade us all. In the end the reader will want to applaud and encourage our heroine at the novel's finish as she seems to make a final break into self-independence. But we are quickly brought back to the reality of the times in how Uma sees her overall social role and how she has always allowed society to define her future happiness for her. This is a sad, cyclical novel that depicts the inevitable unhappiness that life presents to all of us and how most simply march in the same barren place to the same monotonous drumbeat while we deceive ourselves into thinking that we are moving forward.......
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S.L.'s style is fluid, and the story engaging. Una's plight was and is familiar, and her heroic efforts to keeping moving forward and improving her lot is equally familiar and laudable. The only glaring fault is the unfortunate ending, and perhaps is Lewis coming through as a man rather than Una as woman.
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