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Alice Adams
- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- Narrator
- Traci Svendsgaard
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 July 2008
- Run Time
- 8 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“Tarkington’s story of ambition and delusion…still packs a punch.”
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“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.”
New York Times
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Details
- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- Narrator
- Traci Svendsgaard
- Duration
- 8 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 July 2008
- ISBN
- 9781481567398
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
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.
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