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Alice Adams (Photoplay Edition)
by TARKINGTON, Booth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
Tarkington's classic novel of small-town American social anxiety and romantic awkwardness, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, and wonderfully filmed by George Steven's (with Katherine Hepburn) in 1935. This reprint, issued to coincide with the release of the film, has beautiful (uncredited) jacket art depicting Hepburn in a front porch swing, although the book itself, alas, contains no illustrations from the movie. (The heyday of the original "Photoplay Editions," most of which contained either four or eight stills, was over by the mid-1930s.)
Synopsis
This compelling satire details irresistible characteristics of social status in a small Midwestern town. Mr. and Mrs. Adams and their two children are members of the lower middle-class. Their daughter, Alice, wrestles with this economic classification and attempts to make the society folk of the town appreciate her. Because Alice has no social influence nor wealth and her presence is held in disregard by prospective suitors, Mrs. Adams tries to improve the situation by persuading her husband to leave a job he's held all his life and to establish a new career. After much apprehension and in possession of a glue formula stolen from his previous employer, he resigns his mediocre but satisfying employment which puts him in a predicament that leads to his professional downfall. Tarkington's understanding of class rivalries, social condescension, and financial avarice is evident in this tale where his main point indicates that in every joyless moment hope, though unexpected, is attainable. He illustrates how the Adams' laborious efforts are ultimately unsuccessful. Any intrusion by Alice and her mother on the upper class is unlikely and Tarkington's depiction of such is secretly amusing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 231
- Title
- Alice Adams (Photoplay Edition)
- Author
- TARKINGTON, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1935
- Pages
- 434pp. + ads
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cinema Studies, Photoplay
- Bookseller catalogs
- Spring 2022; Women's studies;
Terms of Sale
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Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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Glendale, California
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