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Alice Adams

Autor Booth Tarkington
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2008
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one of Booth Tarkington's most compelling characters. A fascinating story that won the Pulitzer Prize. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781600965579
ISBN-10: 1600965571
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 149 x 225 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Editorium
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

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.