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Alice Adams

Autor Booth Tarkington
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Alice Adams is the 1921"Pulitzer Prize"-winning novel by"Booth Tarkington." The narrative centers on the character of a young woman, Alice Adams, who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. Arthur is an upper-class young man smitten with Alice, who is not entirely aware of the Adams family's status in town. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly afterWorld War I."

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ISBN-13: 9781500949174
ISBN-10: 1500949175
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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.