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The Turmoil: A Novel
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The Turmoil follows a Midwestern family whose lives are reshaped by relentless industrial growth, centering on a sensitive son at odds with his father's drive for wealth and expansion. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century American fiction about industrialization and family conflict.
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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