Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington, Fiction, Classics, Literary

This is Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Alice Adams. Tarkington was, in his day, one of the most popular American novelists, with The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appearing on the annual best-seller lists nine times. His works included The Gentleman from Indiana, Monsieur Beaucaire, The Two Vanrevels, Penrod, The Turmoil, Seventeen, The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, Gentle Julia, The Midlander, The Plutocrat, Claire Ambler, Penrod Jashber, Mirthful Haven, Mary's Neck, and Presenting Lily Mars.

The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I.

Author: Booth Tarkington
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781598189179

About the Author
Tarkington, Booth: - "Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, which also became a film by Orson Welles. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life and the changes wrought by the economic boom times following the Civil War and up to World War I."