Adams, Alice | William Buchanan (essay date 1983)
William Buchanan (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: A review of To See You Again, in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 20, Nos. 2-3, Spring-Summer, 1983, p. 143.
[In the following review of To See You Again, Buchanan discusses common characteristics of Adams's stories and comments on comparisons of her writing with that of Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Mansfield.]
[To See You Again] collects nineteen stories, a majority of which first appeared in the New Yorker and reflects the milieu of many of its readers: the educated, the talented, the well-to-do, the divorced, in their pursuit of pleasure, mostly extra-marital sex and cocktails. Most of them end on an affirmative note. Several are told in the present tense, with a hazy atmosphere where bits and pieces drift in and out of view, something approaching a stream of consciousness technique. Others (the majority) are told in a more straightforward manner and have a...
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