Alice Adams Author:Booth Tarkington A novel of a vain young girl's desperate efforts to surmount the barriers of small-town provincial snobbery. When ristocratic Arthur Russell meets and falls in love with her, Alice contrives endless lies to conceal from him the Adam's true economic status. Pressured by his nagging wife, Virgil Adams exchanges his security as an employee for th... more »e uncertain risks of an independent manufacturer.« less
Booth Tarkington won his second Pulitzer Prize for fiction with Alice Adams. He also won for The Magnificent Ambersons. Tragic story of Alice and her family trying to live beyond their means.