+ N Y Times p18 N 14 ’20 1600w
“Gopher Prairie is untypical in human sympathy, in generous instincts, in kindness of heart. Its people are not merely heavy in mind, ludicrously dead to art and literature and world movements; they are selfish, grasping, slanderloving, ignoble. Carol herself is a shallow sort of reformer. This is the strongest criticism to be made on ‘Main street.’” R. D. Townsend
+ − Outlook 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 400w
Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins
+ Pub W 98:1889 D 18 ’20 200w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:447 N 10 ’20 690w
“It is full of the realism of fact, colored by rather laborious and overclever satire. But it has no sustained action, whether as realism or as satire. It is a bulky collection of scenes, types, caricatures, humorous episodes, and facetious turns of phrase; a mine of comedy from which the ore has not been lifted.” H. W. Boynton
− + Review 3:623 D 22 ’20 280w
“Mr Lewis has fashioned one of the year’s most notable volumes of fiction.”