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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author, Mallon, Thomas, 1951- editor, Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Magnificent Ambersons, Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Alice Adams, Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. In the arena

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Here are three indispensable works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning laureate of the American heartland, including the novels that inspired a classic film by Orson Welles and an Oscar-nominated performance by Katharine Hepburn. The Magnificent Ambersons depicts the fall from grace of George Minafer, scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family whose wealth and grandeur are in precipitous decline. Alice Adams, perhaps Booth Tarkington's greatest work, offers a psychologically nuanced portrait of a self-aware young woman whose social prospects are rapidly diminishing. Tarkington's gifts as a story writer are displayed in the collection In the Arena: Stories of Political Life, published not long after he served as an Indiana state representative and drawing unforgettable from his firsthand encounter with the rough-and-tumble of real-world politics. With original illustrations from the first editions, helpful annotation, and a newly researched chronology of Tarkington's life and career.

• Publisher: The Library of America
• Subject: Mothers and sons Fiction. / Inheritance and successions Fiction. / Children of the rich Fiction. / Loss (Psychology) Fiction. / Social change Fiction. / Young women Fiction. / Social classes Fiction. / Middle class families Fiction. / Indiana Fiction. / United States Social life and customs Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781598536201, 1598536206

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS2971.M35 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE