A review by wshier
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
5.0
Maybe it's too easy to send up a charleton minister and religious hypocrisy, but this is such a good job of it. While religious hucksters have been around forever, this book (written in the 20's) manages to both skewer the present form and also fortell of televangelism and and the cynical blending of Old Testament fire and brimstone with politics. As serious as that sounds, I litterally laughed outloud at parts of this book.
"he had learned that poverty is blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons."
"yes, the Maker of a universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon."
"he had learned that poverty is blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons."
"yes, the Maker of a universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon."