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Alice Adams
First published 1921 Reading time about 6 hours
Alice Adams is Booth Tarkington’s second novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, just three years after his novel The Magnificent Ambersons won it. The novel tells the story of Alice, a Midwestern girl who grows up in a lower-middle-class family just after World War I. Alice meets a wealthy young man and tries to win his affection, despite her lower-class upbringing. Alice Adams was twice adapted for film, with the second adaptation starring Katherine Hepburn and earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Young women · Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Social classes · Fiction
- Middle West · Fiction
- Middle class families · Fiction
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