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Sister Carrie * Available on Tape.

By Theodore Dreiser
Read by Rebecca Burns (Amer.)
1997 Books on Tape, Inc.
Unabridged
Classics > Fiction

In this first masterpiece of American naturalism, a young woman leaves behind small-town life -- and her moral scruples -- for the big city.

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America's first masterpiece of naturalistic fiction concerns a pretty young woman who abandons small-town life for the big city, Chicago. First manipulated, then manipulating, Carrie Meeber eventually becomes a successful stage actress in New York. But woe to the men she meets along the way, including George Hurstwood, one of Dreiser's finest creations.

The original publication of SISTER CARRIE was delayed twelve years for its perceived immorality -- its gritty portrayal of urban life, its unblinking treatment of sexual relations, its presentation of man driven to his emotional limits. But it was precisely this shockingly real portrait of humanity and the environment that attracted some of America's greatest writers to Dreiser, from Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos to William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"Few American novels have been launched into the stream of naturalism and literary history as decisively as Theodore Dreiser's SISTER CARRIE" (The New York Times Book Review)

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Reviewer: Steven Houston (see other books I've reviewed)

August 20, 2002

While this book was considered shocking when it was first published in 1900, obviously, it's mild by today's standards. Nevertheless, it's an important book-- one of the last important books of the 19th century and one that led the way for the writers of the 20th century. Dreiser's writing at times can get a little klunky, but, because this story is so engrossing, a little klunkiness is easy to overlook.