Alice Adams

by Booth Tarkington Narrated by Scott Cluthe, Gary MacFadden

Overview

Alice Adams follows the day-to-day life of a young woman who dreams of climbing the social ladder and escaping from her middle-class background.

She struggles with the constant tension between her parents and her older brother. When a wealthy young man becomes interested in her, she weaves a fictional life during their discussions-but how long can she maintain the façade?

Editorial Reviews

New York Times

In Alice Adams Booth Tarkington momentarily ceased his detached contemplation of the foibles of youth and wrote a highly subjective story of an American family. Without abandoning his great gift for exposing the comic details of adolescent behavior, he was able to regard Alice’s difficulties with interior sympathy and understanding.”

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Tarkington’s story of ambition and delusion…still packs a punch.”

From the Publisher

Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofa—over everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke and grime.... Yet here was not fault of housewifery; the curse could not be lifted, as the ingrained smudges permanent on the once white woodwork proved. The grime was perpetually renewed; scrubbing only ground it in.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940192356548
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	04/09/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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