Alice Adams is clever, pretty and painfully aware that her family is slipping behind the people she grew up with. Her father lies ill, her mother nags him to quit his safe clerk’s job for a risky glue venture, and when the wealthy Arthur Russell takes an interest, Alice spins small pretences about her home that grow harder to sustain.
Tarkington’s second Pulitzer winner, a sharp and tender study of class anxiety in a growing Midwestern city. Download the free EPUB.