- American fiction (fictional works by one author), Automobiles, Fiction, Women automobile drivers
Free Air heads toward a West that was brimming with possibilities for suddenly mobile Americans at the end of a world war. The vehicle in Lewis's novel, not a Model T but a Gomez-Dep roadster, takes Claire Boltwood and her father from Minnesota to Seattle, exposing them all to the perils of early motoring.
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Classical in form, cool, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Copp, Clark, Cosimo, Inc., General Books
- Editions
- 238
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798655850439
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“WHEN the windshield was closed it became so filmed with rain that Claire fancied she was piloting a drowned car in dim spaces under the sea.”
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