The Magnificent Ambersons

Locations
Call Number: BOCD Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Read by Geoffrey Blaisdell.
Chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of the Ambersons, an American dynasty.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Relevant Classic submitted by osbornk on August 3, 2011, 5:35pm I picked up Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams on audiobook on a whim. Booth Tarkington was a familiar name but I hadn't read any of his work. Turns out, he is one of only 3 novelists to win more than one Pulitzer Prize: for Alice Adams and for the Magnificent Ambersons. Alice Adams was good but didn't transcend its era of class and gender roles as well as the Magnificent Ambersons. This book has helicopter parenting, urban sprawl, and pollution. It also describes the beginning of the auto industry. Very relevant plot and wonderful characters.

If you are a fan of The Great Gatsby... submitted by lmangus on June 12, 2021, 5:34pm This might be one for you to check out. Tarkington earned a Pulitzer for this work, which actually predates Gatsby, with a publication date of 1918. The audiobook is well done, and enjoyable to listen to.