The Stories of Alice Adams

by Alice Adams

Book Overview

Twenty-five of her stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker within a ten-year period. Others were published in The Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and McCall's. Her work was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375412859
• ISBN13: 9780375412851
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 621 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Alice Adams's short fiction, forty years in the lives of American women

Adams may be the most underrated American woman short story writer of the later twentieth century. The other two reviewers seem to have missed all the subtlety and artistry of these fine stories, which deal with racism, women's work and relationships, and the triumph of individual spirit over cliched expectations.