Caroline's Daughters

by Alice Adams

Book Overview

Set in San Francisco during the '80s, Caroline's Daughters brings readers into the interconnected lives of the Carter women--a mother and five daughters. Following these women through the course of year, we see their decpetionsm, pleasures, successess and failures, and we see Caroline finding a new path for herself which may eventually lead her to a different last lovely city. LG Featured Alternate.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394568257
• ISBN13: 9780394568256
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Thought-provoking work

The insight into one family in a well-told tale gives the reader food-for-thought about many contemporary issues. Alice Adams is truly a gifted writer and this book is ample evidence of this fact. Five protagonists is a difficult feat and only a truly excellent writer can pull it off.

Not your traditional "story."

I liked it! Don't worry about a plot! It's all the characters, with whom it is surprisingly easy to get involved.At first, you wonder how you are going to follow so many main character, but Adams' style really brings everything to life. I found this to be a 'real' novel in the sense that that is how life is - everything changes, are we ever satisfied?, and we can't solve other's problems; so have to live our own lives. Entertaining, intelligent, and an interesting, detailed San Fran. setting. I couldn't get into the 80's era that it was supposed to represent though. Don't try it if you are looking for a "story" that builds up to final ending.