Alice Adams
de Tarkington, Booth
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+
- Librería
-
Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, once for The Magnificent Ambersons (1919) and once for Alice Adams (1922). Although mostly forgotten today, he was considered America's greatest novelist during his lifetime, on a par with Mark Twain, led best-seller lists and had many of his novels made into movies, such as Alice Adams by George Stevens in 1935 and The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles in 1942,
Sinopsis
This compelling satire details irresistible characteristics of social status in a small Midwestern town. Mr. and Mrs. Adams and their two children are members of the lower middle-class. Their daughter, Alice, wrestles with this economic classification and attempts to make the society folk of the town appreciate her. Because Alice has no social influence nor wealth and her presence is held in disregard by prospective suitors, Mrs. Adams tries to improve the situation by persuading her husband to leave a job he's held all his life and to establish a new career. After much apprehension and in possession of a glue formula stolen from his previous employer, he resigns his mediocre but satisfying employment which puts him in a predicament that leads to his professional downfall. Tarkington's understanding of class rivalries, social condescension, and financial avarice is evident in this tale where his main point indicates that in every joyless moment hope, though unexpected, is attainable. He illustrates how the Adams' laborious efforts are ultimately unsuccessful. Any intrusion by Alice and her mother on the upper class is unlikely and Tarkington's depiction of such is secretly amusing.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Setton Book Collection (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 151
- Título
- Alice Adams
- Autor
- Tarkington, Booth
- Ilustrador
- Arthur William Brown
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Red cloth binding, black stamped titles, spine a little tanned and wrinkled, front hinge starting
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First (second printing)
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Doubleday, Page and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City
- Fecha de publicación
- 1921
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Social climbing in America, American Midwest, American class structure, post-WWl America
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Eclectic Americana;
- Size
- 5" x 7 5/8"
Términos de venta
Setton Book Collection
Sobre el vendedor
Setton Book Collection
Sobre Setton Book Collection
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