Alice Adams

This, the fourth Pulitzer winner, and the second winner by Booth Tarkington, is the tale of the ambitious Alice Adams who tries to use good humor and honesty to rise above her modest station in life. Unfortunately, she blossoms too early and due primarily to circumstances (both social and familial)......more

cross-posted at [URL not allowed] i wished after reading alice adams that my younger self had discovered it, ideally the version of me who was besotted with pride & prejudice and identified with the impudent, winsome miss elizabeth bennet. i doubt the young maureen would have i......more

This was a book club selection about a young woman, Alice, and her family in midtown America in the 1930’s. Alice is trying to find love, but finds it difficult to compete with the other girls in town, whose families are much wealthier. Surprisingly, she does happen to catch the eye of a handsome, w......more

Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize, this satire of social manners and class climbing tells of the Adams family, a middle-class working couple with two late-teen or twenty-something children, Alice and Walter. Alice tries hard to ingratiate herself into the higher echelons of the town’s society, but i......more

really quite glad at Alice's realisation that men aren't worth shit and it's much better to have a career instead!!......more