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Title: A mundane tale about a mundane family and their mundane lives...
Review: After having read the classics of Elmer Gantry, Free Air, Main Street and The Job, I was expecting a great deal more from Mr. Lewis. It was not to be. All of us show varying degrees of success in our professional endeavors. Being a writer is no exception to this simple rule. In this novel the characters are both flat and entirely uninteresting. The plot drags itself through communist agitation, the failure of parenting, into midlife crisis and escapism and finally into a milquetoast acceptance of one another. In sum, it starts no where, goes no where, and ends up no where.I suggest that if the reader wishes to explore Sinclair Lewis that he start with Elmer Gantry and proceed onto Main Street. The author's writings tend to slightly decline after this point. But with 'The Prodigal Parents' they seem to have fallen completely into an abyss....
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