Alice Adams [electronic resource] / Booth Tarkington.
Plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about ambition and self-delusion. The lower-middle class Adams family faces a slow disintegration in a small Midwestern town. Alice, a social climber, is ashamed of her unsuccessful family and determined to distinguish herself. Lacking the social props she needs to shine in society, Alice attends a dance and lies about her background, hoping to attract a wealthy husband. But in the end, her high aspirations must be tempered by the reality of her situation. Alice Adams' resiliency of spirit makes her one of Tarkington's most compelling female characters. "Tarkington's story of ambition and delusion...still packs a punch." "In Alice Adams Booth Tarkington momentarily ceased his detached contemplation of the foibles of youth and wrote a highly subjective story of an American family. Without abandoning his great gift for exposing the comic details of adolescent behavior, he was able to regard Alice's difficulties with interior sympathy and understanding."
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- ISBN: 9781481567381
- ISBN: 1481567381
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 11 min.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2008.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
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- Restrictions on Access Note:
- Flex title available through hoopla.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Read by Traci Svendsgaard.
- System Details Note:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Language arts > Fiction.
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