{"product_id":"elmer-gantry","title":"Elmer Gantry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUniversally recognized as a landmark in American literature, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eElmer Gantry\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003escandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be “invited” to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church—a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence—is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eElmer Gantry\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sinclair Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957732819138,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8002\/4002\/files\/9780451530752.jpg?v=1782402717","url":"https:\/\/frictionbooks.com\/products\/elmer-gantry","provider":"Friction Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}