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Seventeen
Seventeen
Author: Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkinton was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Seventeen is a tale of youth and summertime romance. William Baxter's seventeenth summer is spent in the throes of first love. William is smitten with Miss Lola Pratt, a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781438527192
ISBN-10: 1438527195
Publication Date: 10/8/2009
Pages: 198
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Publisher: Book Jungle
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is one of the few books that have made me laugh out loud--and that, more than once. Although the story is set some time in the early 20th century, it is a timeless account of the "sufferings" of a teen-aged boy who longs to be cool and attractive to the opposite sex, but is constantly being thwarted by cruel fate or else being embarrassed by his loving parents and/or unsympathetic little sister.

If you are ever read this book, please, please DO NOT peek ahead to the ending. It is a surprise, and my favorite of all I have come across (mysteries and the like excepted, of course).

It was first published around 1916 I think, and therefore you can probably find a digital copy somewhere, if not a paper copy.
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Booth Tarkington's young characters are from a much earlier era but they act in ways very recognizable to us today. One of those classics that truly are worth listing as a classic.


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