Cass Timberlane
by Sinclair Lewis
Cass Timberlane, who explores the themes of love, marriage, heartache, trust, and redemption in the small Grand Republic town in central Minnesota, is as fictitious as all the characters. The characters will each be "identified" with several different real people in each of the Minnesota cities: Minneapolis, St. Paul, Winona, St. Cloud, Mancato, Fergus Falls, and especially in the sparkling, seaside, hillside city of Duluth, as it is only slightly larger than the Great Republic. All these predictions would be wrong, but they would be so convincing that even the author would be surprised to learn how he portrayed a judge, doctor, banker, or housewife he had never heard of, or how toxicly he had to describe the people he particularly loved.
