Alice Adams
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LibriVox recording of Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington Read by Jeannie
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who wants a better place in society and a better life. As Gerard Previn Meyer has stated, "Apart from being the contribution to social history its author conceived it to be, [Alice Adams] is something more, that something being what has attracted to it so large a public: its portrait of a (despite her faults) 'lovable girl'." (Summary by Jeannie)
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who wants a better place in society and a better life. As Gerard Previn Meyer has stated, "Apart from being the contribution to social history its author conceived it to be, [Alice Adams] is something more, that something being what has attracted to it so large a public: its portrait of a (despite her faults) 'lovable girl'." (Summary by Jeannie)
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August 11, 2021
Subject: Good story, good reader
Subject: Good story, good reader
As the previous reviewer said, this is a nice little story, and the reader does a great job at it.
Those higher up the social ladder tend to look down on the "grasping ones" that desperately want to fit in. Here's the situation from the perspective of the "grasper". It does make you feel a bit sorry for Alice.
Those higher up the social ladder tend to look down on the "grasping ones" that desperately want to fit in. Here's the situation from the perspective of the "grasper". It does make you feel a bit sorry for Alice.
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January 14, 2010
Subject: A great Tarkington book and the reader was excellent
Subject: A great Tarkington book and the reader was excellent
I decided to try another Tarkington book after listening to the Magnificent Ambersons which I liked a lot. While this novel wasn't as deep as that one it was very moving and the ending will throw you for a loss. By the way the 1935 movie with Katherine Hepburn idiotically changed the ending making the film into some kind of romantic comedy/drama instead of the deeper work it is. I guess during the Depression years they wanted happy endings but the book's ending in its own way was even more happier and noble than the movies' ludicrous ending.
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