After the War (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Adams
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1944-1945
- Setting: Pinehill, North Carolina
- Principal Characters: Cynthia Baird, Harry Baird, Abigail Baird, Odessa, James Russell Lowell Byrd, Melanctha Byrd, Deirdre Byrd, Dolly Bigelow, Dan Marcus, Sylvia Marcus, Joseph Marcus, Susan Marcus
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Homosexuality or homosexuals, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Marriage, 1940’s, Adultery, North Carolina
- Locales: North Carolina
Readers and critics alike generally regard Alice Adams as one of the major American writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Her death in August of 1999 marked the end of a distinguished, decades-spanning career during which Adams produced eleven novels and a host of award-winning short stories. After the War, published posthumously, is her last book, and a fitting close to her years as a writer.
Set in Pinehill, North Carolina, a small university town, After the War picks up where Adams’s previous novel, A Southern Exposure (1995), left off....
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