Adams, Alice | Anne Boston (essay date 1986)
Anne Boston (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: A review of Return Trips, in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4322, January 31, 1986, p. 112.
[In the following review of Return Trips, Boston asserts that Adams's stories are monotonous in their unvarying treatment of individuals trying to come to terms with their lives.]
Going back, especially to the place where you were happiest, is usually a mistake, as more than one character discovers during the course of these stories by the American author of the novel Superior Women. The strongest afterimage [in Return Trips] is left by the story "Molly's Dog", in which a "newly retired screen writer" makes a "return trip" to Carmel, where she often stayed with lovers in the past. But this time she is going with her gay friend Sandy, and she realizes beforehand that she is wrong to go: not because the place has changed but because she has. Now, older but little wiser, she...
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