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Booth Tarkington : novels & stories / Booth Tarkington ; Thomas Mallon, editor

By:

Tarkington, Booth

Contributor(s):

Mallon, Thomas, (, 1951-)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: New York : The Library of America , 2019Description: 669 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781598536201

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC TAR

LOC classification:

PS2971 .M35 2019

Contents:

The magnificent Ambersons -- Alice Adams -- In the arena: stories of political life

Summary: 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 from his firsthand encounter with the rough-and-tumble of real-world politics.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC TAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		056881

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The magnificent Ambersons -- Alice Adams -- In the arena: stories of political life

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 from his firsthand encounter with the rough-and-tumble of real-world politics.

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