Tarkington, Booth
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARTarkington, Booth
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1922 offers a wry, realistic portrait of a middle-class, midwestern family dominated by a disgruntled woman who, with her precocious daughter Alice, fashions a series of outlandish schemes to climb the social ladder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARTarkington, Booth
Contents: pt. 1. Penrod.--pt. 2. Penrod and Sam.--pt. 3. Penrod Jashber.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran & company, inc. 1931