Alice Adams
About this book
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.
Subjects
- adolescence
- american literature
- authors
- award:pulitzer_prize=1922
- award:pulitzer_prize=fiction
- bildungsromans
- classic literature
- domestic fiction
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life, general
- indiana, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- middle class families
- middle class families -- fiction
- middle west -- fiction
- pulitzer prize winner
- social classes
- social classes -- fiction
- young women
- young women -- fiction
- young women, fiction