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Alice Adams
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Alice Adams follows a young woman in a small Midwestern town who strains against her family's modest circumstances while trying to rise socially. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century American fiction and studies of class and social ambition.
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film.
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