| Seventeen by Booth Tarkington, Fiction, Political, Literary, Classics Contributor(s): Tarkington, Booth (Author) |
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ISBN: 160312327X ISBN-13: 9781603123273 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist from Indiana best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels "Alice Adams" and "The Magnificent Ambersons," which also be came a film by Orson Welles. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life, and the changes wrought by the economic boom times followoing the Civil War and up to World War I. One of the themes that Tarkington treated was boyhood and adolescence, beginning with "Penrod" in 1914, and continuing in "Penrod and Sam" and "Penrod Jashber," "Seventeen" is another story of boyhood of boyhood, coupled with romance. William Baxter is infatuated with baby-talking Lola Pratt. First love with all of its glories and pratfalls, called "one of the superb comedies of adolescence" by Tarkington's biographer, James Woodruff. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 9" (0.57 lbs) 172 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Seventeen is another story of boyhood, coupled with romance. William Baxter is infatuated with baby-talking Lola Pratt. First love with all of its glories and pratfalls; called "one of the superb comedies of adolescence" by Tarkington's biographer, James Woodruff. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tarkington, Booth: - "Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, which also became a film by Orson Welles. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life and the changes wrought by the economic boom times following the Civil War and up to World War I." |
