After You've Gone

by Alice Adams

Book Overview

A new selection of short stories explores the impact and adjustment of individuals dealing with separation and the loss of lovers, spouses, parents, and friends This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394579267
• ISBN13: 9780394579269
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

after youd gone

I really loved this book. It captures what real romance and falling in love is really like. The writing is smooth, with deceptively simple prose. Alice Adams captures family conflict withhout cliche. Her evocation of the love between a man and a woman rang so true without being syrupy. The mystery involved is gripping. I also enjoyed the references to North Berwick and London. Adams evokes the setting very well

Another Alice Adams Classic

This is another one of Ms. Adams collections of short stories. Like the others it refers back to some of the characters in other books (like Popsie). Ms. Adams is so excellent in her description one can almost feel the fog roll into the San Francisco bay as the stories are read. The stories of how children are affected as adults by their parents alcoholism were my favorites in this collection.