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- catalog abstract "Elmer Gantry is one of the Sinclair Lewis's most famous novels. Considered scandalous in its day, it is a vicious satire of preachers and those they fool. Gantry has no redeeming features but is seen by the gullible public as a man who speaks the truth about God. Of course he could just as easily have been a lawyer or a politician and the heart of Lewis's satire is how easily people believe what they want to believe. Perhaps nowadays it is better known for the film of the same name which starred Burt Lancaster and won three Academy Awards. However the book is much more biting than the film and provides a fascinating picture both of the man and the times he would have lived in. "This novel 'deals with a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry and, through his half-plagiarized sermons, his physical attractiveness, and his unerring instinct for promotion, becomes a successful evangelist and later the leader of a large Middle Western church. Carefully researched, the novel was realistic enough to shock both the faithful and the unfaithful.'" Reader's Ency. 3d edition. *** "Biting satire on the Protestant churches in America."".
- catalog contributor b11597589.
- catalog contributor b11597590.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "c1970.".
- catalog date "1970".
- catalog date "c1970.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1970.".
- catalog description ""This novel 'deals with a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry and, through his half-plagiarized sermons, his physical attractiveness, and his unerring instinct for promotion, becomes a successful evangelist and later the leader of a large Middle Western church. Carefully researched, the novel was realistic enough to shock both the faithful and the unfaithful.'" Reader's Ency. 3d edition. *** "Biting satire on the Protestant churches in America."".
- catalog description "Elmer Gantry is one of the Sinclair Lewis's most famous novels. Considered scandalous in its day, it is a vicious satire of preachers and those they fool. Gantry has no redeeming features but is seen by the gullible public as a man who speaks the truth about God. Of course he could just as easily have been a lawyer or a politician and the heart of Lewis's satire is how easily people believe what they want to believe. Perhaps nowadays it is better known for the film of the same name which starred Burt Lancaster and won three Academy Awards. However the book is much more biting than the film and provides a fascinating picture both of the man and the times he would have lived in.".
- catalog extent "430, [1] p. ;".
- catalog isPartOf "Signet classic ; CY509".
- catalog issued "1970".
- catalog issued "c1970.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New American Library,".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "A14.L37 E4 1970".
- catalog subject "College students Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Hypocrisy Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Preaching Fiction.".
- catalog title "Elmer Gantry / by Sinclair Lewis ; with an afterword by Mark Schorer.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Satire.".
- catalog type "text".