Alice Adams - Softcover

Tarkington, Booth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494812762 ISBN 13: 9781494812768

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Alice Adams, a novel by Booth Tarkington, was first published in 1921. Tarkington's novel tells the story of the disintegration of a lower middle-class family in a small Midwestern town. Alice Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for best novel in 1922. A social climber, the title character is ashamed of her unsuccessful family. Hoping to attract a wealthy husband, she lies about her background, but she is found out and is shunned by those whom she sought to attract..

About this title

About the Author:

Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

Review:

"Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofa over everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke and grime... Yet here was not fault of housewifery; the curse could not be lifted, as the ingrained smudges permanent on the once white woodwork proved. The grime was perpetually renewed; scrubbing only ground it in." from the novel

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1494812762
• ISBN 13: 9781494812768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222