Adams, Alice
Adams, Alice( 1926–1999),Virginia-born author, educated at Radcliffe, long resident in San Francisco, whose novels include Careless Love (1966), Families and Survivors (1974), Listening to Billie (1978), Rich Rewards (1980), and Superior Women (1984), sensitive studies of women—young to middle-aged—and their relations to family, friends, husbands, and lovers, Second Chances (1988), a novel about a group of longtime friends having important relationships in older age. Later novels include A Southern Exposure (1995) and its sequel, After the War (2000, published posthumously). Adams is also known for stories, collected in Beautiful Girl (1979), You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981), To See You Again (1982), Return Trips (1986), After You've Gone (1989), and The Last Lovely City (1999). An anthology, The Stories of Alice Adams,...
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