Title: Alice Adams
Description: <p><i>Alice Adams</i> is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/booth-tarkington">Booth Tarkington’s</a> second novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, just three years after his novel <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/booth-tarkington/the-magnificent-ambersons"><i>The Magnificent Ambersons</i></a> 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.</p>
			<p><i>Alice Adams</i> was twice adapted for film, with the second adaptation starring Katherine Hepburn and earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture.</p>
Subjects: Fiction, Middle class families, Social classes, Young women, Classic Literature, Pulitzer Prize Winner, award:pulitzer_prize=1922, award:pulitzer_prize=fiction, Large type books, Indiana, fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, general, American literature, Young women -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Social classes -- Fiction, Middle West -- Fiction, Middle class families -- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Adolescence, Authors
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