Alice Adams
Birth date: August 14, 1926
Died: May 27, 1999
Alice Adams's Books
"The streets of Hampstead teemed with belligerent old ladies and their posses of tiny canines, and they weren’t to be trifled with."I must admit that I only picked this up because it fit one of the squares of the Bingo Challenge. Otherwise, I would have judged the book by its cover and it's descript...
#INVINCIBLESUMMER AVAILABLE 6/7/16 4 STARS! EXCELLENT READ! @Alice_Adams @littlebrown I really enjoyed this book, the story of four friends growing up, being close, growing away, coming back together and just sharing their lives together. I really liked the characters as well. They were friend...
The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
I really enjoyed this collection. As many have said, Alice Adams really is a master of the short story. This collection is really delicious, with each story interpreting the concept of "return trips." I'm really enjoying diving in to her work and I look forward to reading more!
Some of these essays I loved, some less so, and some I think I just didn't get, but overall a really fascinating and valuable collection.
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