The Job, Sinclair Lewis
The Job, Sinclair Lewis
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The Job
An American Novel

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 03/28/2020

Synopsis

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women.Despite the traditional expectations of marriage placed on Una Golden in her small Pennsylvania town, she travels to New York to work due to a family illness. But once there, Una discovers a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate.However, while her company claims to value her work, Una struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers. Her unique role as a working woman, doing a man’s job, becomes a challenge in finding an appropriate suitor when Una decides it is time to marry after all, and an even greater challenge when she decides it may be time to end the marriage she eventually achieves. First published in 1917 before Lewis achieved any significant fame, The Job is now seen as an early classic of a celebrated author, as well as a literary vanguard for its female lead character and its early declaration and examination of the rights of working women, issues still being grappled with a century later.

About Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), the son of a country doctor, was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He attended Yale University, where he was editor of the literary magazine, and graduated in 1907. After a few of his stories had appeared in magazines and his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn (1914), had been published, he was able to write full time. He was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith (1925) but refused to accept the honor. However, he accepted the Nobel Prize awarded him in 1930. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

About Jim Seybert

Jim Seybert has worked as a radio announcer, talk show host, and television producer. He also spent many years as business development vice president at an association of independent retail stores. Today, he maintains a private consulting practice and works with companies in many industries, helping them find new ways to do things. A frequent speaker and seminar leader, he has shared his ideas and expertise with the National Center for Database Marketing, Direct Marketing Association, Christian Management Association, Gospel Music Association, and Biola University’s Executive MBA program, where he is a frequent lecturer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pamela on June 02, 2015

Una is unforgettable, that's for sure. In a way, she reminds me very much of Tarkington's "Alice Adams." No, Alice and Una don't have much in common--Una lives in the real world--a world that Alice has only visited once or maybe twice in her life. What they both are is real. You come away knowing th......more

Goodreads review by T.P. on October 25, 2011

Reading about the career of Una Golden was interesting; like his other novels, very dated, but it presents a snapshot of what America was like in the early 20th Century. Reading her adventures in commercial school, job hunting, early office jobs, etc. showed that some things remain the same after a......more

Goodreads review by Crysta on February 22, 2012

Classic Lewis. I love his writing and his stories of "woman alone in the big, bad city." Set in the first decade of the 20th century in New York, The Job looks at an American woman's career options: work a relatively meaningless job until you find a husband, or commit to a lifelong, relatively flat......more

Goodreads review by Jen on September 14, 2007

The setting is New York City, the time period is just pre-WWI, and the heroine Una is a New Woman who leaves her small town with her widowed mother and strikes out as a stenographer in the Big City. Along the way she loves and loses her True Love, makes a mistake of a marriage, and finally finds her......more

Goodreads review by Andy on June 17, 2012

Just read this early work by Lewis. Truly progressive piece (1917) about a woman struggling to make her place in the world of work.......more

Quotes

"[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade…it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds.” H. L. Mencken, praise for the author

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