The turmoil, a novel

By Booth Tarkington

Subjects: City and town life in fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Social classes in fiction, Children of the rich in fiction, Domestic fiction, Middle West -- Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Children of the rich, Social classes, Young men -- Fiction, Middle West in fiction, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Bildungsromans, Social life and customs, Middle west, fiction, Social classes -- Fiction, Children of the rich -- Fiction, Young men in fiction, City and town life, City and town life -- Fiction, Young men

Description: Booth Tarkington grew up in Indianapolis, and attended Princeton University. He set much of his fiction in Indiana. Tarkington was one of the more popular novelists of his time, and in 1921 booksellers rated him in a poll as the most significant contemporary American author. -Wikipedia entry for Tarkington