Pulitzer Prize winner 1919.
The novel starts out with the la-dee-dah Amberson family. They are rich and like showing it. They build a big house and throw lavish parties. The story centers around George Amberson Minaver who is the grandson of the founding Amberson father. This boy thinks his better than everyone else. That everyone in the world who isn't an Amberson is "riff-raff." Which is funny because, duh, he isn't an Amberson, he's a Minaver! Apparently no one ever pointed that out to him. So Georgie goes through the story stepping on toes and treating everyone badly, including his own mother. Everyone he crosses hopes he gets his just desserts. Which he does when it turns out that all the family fortune is gone!
The story doesn't end there and if you don't mind reading about conceited jerks you might enjoy it. I I didn't like it. I just don't like stories where the main character is a jerk.
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