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Kingsblood Royal

By Sinclair Lewis
Introduction by Charles Johnson

By Sinclair Lewis
Introduction by Charles Johnson

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $15.00

Apr 10, 2001 | ISBN 9780375756863

Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis
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About Kingsblood Royal

A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring and wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race. When Neil Kingsblood a typical middle-American banker with a comfortable life makes the shocking discovery that he has African-American blood, the odyssey that ensues creates an unforgettable portrayal of two Americas, one black, one white.

As timely as when it was first published in 1947, one need only open today’s newspaper to see the same issues passionately being discussed between blacks and whites that we find in Kingsblood Royal, says Charles Johnson. Perhaps only now can we fully appreciate Sinclair Lewis’s astonishing achievement.

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About Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. He was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a doctor. After an extremely unhappy childhood, he went to Yale… More about Sinclair Lewis

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Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

Paperback | $15.00
Published by Modern Library
Apr 10, 2001 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375756863
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"There is more significant terror of a kind in Lewis’s novels than in a writer like Faulkner… it is the terror imminent in the commonplace."

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