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Alice Adams
Written by Booth Tarkington
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who wants a better place in society and a better life. As Gerard Previn Meyer has stated, "Apart from being the contribution to social history its author conceived it to be, [Alice Adams] is something more, that something being what has attracted to it so large a public: its portrait of a (despite her faults) 'lovable girl'."(Summary by Jeannie)
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Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and playwright. Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for the novel The Magnificent Ambersons and again in 1922 for Alice Adams. He is one of only three authors to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Though Tarkington was educated at Princeton University, his works are strongly grounded in his native Indiana.
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Reviews for Alice Adams
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story was kind of depressing but the narrator was very pleasant.