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Booth Tarkington is one of only four repeat winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. "Alice Adams" was the second of Tarkington's Pulitzer winning novels. There is a kind of easy style to Tarkington's writing that might justify winning the award, but I can't help thinking that the two novels ("The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams") just really aren't "great" literature. And they aren't really pleasant or redeeming stories, even though I think they are intended as such. They are really b
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This is the Pulitzer Prize winning novel for 1922. It was made into a movie in 1935 starring Katherine Hepburn. It was a slow read for me although it's not a long book. Alice Adams is the protagonist of course and is the only character of importance in the book. Alice is her own worst enemy and even though she knows her faults are leading to no good, she can't help but continue down the path she has chosen. Alice is a frustrating character for the reader and the ending is foreseeable.
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A thoughtful read that examines how we posture ourselves bound in a story of a family and a community. "Fooling ourselves that we fool somebody" Feeling very thinky.
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This book was just okay. The mother drove me crazy. I'm pretty sure I groaned and rolled my eyes a few times. The main character and the dad were the most enjoyable. I would have ended it differently, but I had been warned that it wasn't a "happily ever after."
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Undeserving of the first pulitzer, forgettable racist garbage.
Jul 23, 2014
Gu Kun
marked it as to-read
Dec 08, 2014
Stephen Kirkley
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Jan 25, 2015
mostly meri
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Feb 10, 2016
Nathan
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Jun 03, 2016
Elizabeth Barrera
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Feb 22, 2017
Barb
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