The Stories of Alice Adams

by Alice Adams

Book Overview

In her long and illustrious career, Alice Adams turned the short story into an art form by offering telling glimpses into the lives of "ordinary people made extraordinary by [her] perception"... 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: 2.36 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.