by Sinclair Lewis · Random House Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375756863
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«Kingsblood Royal» is the satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, published by Random House Publishing Group in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Neil Kingsblood is a Midwestern banker with a comfortable life, until he discovers he has African American ancestry. From that moment, the novel follows his personal and social transformation in a portrait of 1947 America, divided between whites and blacks, and of the prejudices that shape identity.
This edition belongs to the Modern Library Classics collection and includes an introduction by Charles R. Johnson. The work was originally published in 1947.
For readers of American classics interested in social satire and debates on race and identity.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
