Caroline’s Daughters (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Adams
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
Viewers caught in the summer lull between the announced cancellation of THIRTYSOMETHING and the promised return of this yuppie soap opera in the fall may well want to look into CAROLINE’S DAUGHTERS, the seventh novel by the highly regarded short story writer, Alice Adams. The novel follows a year in the life of Caroline Carter and her five daughters (by three marriages) and begins soon after Caroline, sixty-five, and her third husband, Ralph, a leftist political writer and former longshoreman, have returned from a five-year stay in Lisbon (paid for, like most of her daughters’...
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