Alice Adams (Hardcover)

from Pharmacdon

The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I. The center of the story focuses on the young girl Alice Adams who tries to climb the social ladder and her flirtations with Arthur Russell who belongs to the upper class. But later on “...

from pdebolt

Alice Adams is the story of a young woman from a family of modest means who yearns to "belong," as does her mother. Set in the 1920s, Alice's life is filled with, and defined by, an awareness of how she is perceived by her peers. As in the Magnificent Ambersons and Dreiser's An American Tragedy, ...

from curls_99

Alice Adams is Booth Tarkington's second Pulitzer Prize novel. I thoroughly enjoyed Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, and so I looked forward to this read. While Alice Adams was interesting and another good commentary of the pretentiousness of society during the Victorian era, the story was...

from Dreesie

I can't believe this won a Pulitzer. This is not a deep read. The descriptions of black people and in working people in general are crude. Alice Adams in a young 20-something. She (and her mother) desperately want her to land a good (read: wealthy and/or important) husband. But since she was 16, ...

from Schmerguls

I read this because it won the Pulitzer fiction prize for 1922. I found it insipid.