Dodsworth

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>A razor-sharp globe-trotting satire of ambition marriage and American identity.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Meet Sam Dodsworth: successful automobile magnate self-made man and living symbol of American achievement.</strong> But when Sam retires early and sets sail for Europe with his restless socially ambitious wife Fran he's about to discover that the real challenge of life isn't business-it's figuring out what truly matters when success no longer defines you.</p><p></p><p>As Fran chases flirtations and fantasies through the salons and soirées of Europe Sam is left to confront the growing distance between them-and between who he was and who he wants to become.</p><p></p><p>Witty unsparing and surprisingly emotional <em>Dodsworth</em> is Sinclair Lewis at his sharpest-skewering American materialism European pretension and the quiet desperation of people who've achieved everything except happiness. A novel of reinvention midlife reckoning and the bittersweet cost of independence <em>Dodsworth </em>feels as fresh and relevant today as it did when it first stunned readers in 1929.</p><p></p><p>For fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald Evelyn Waugh and sharp literary travel fiction this is a biting brilliant novel you won't forget.</p>