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Penrod and Sam

Name: Penrod and Sam
Author: Booth Tarkington
ISBN: 9781411438088

by Booth Tarkington

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Overview

Penrod Schofield, age eleven, and best friend Samuel Williams careen through a series of misadventures in this 1929 look back at boyhood before the Great War. Fishing a cat out of a well using a pair of trousers is just one of the outrages they perpetrate in this sequel to Penrod.

About the Author, Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.