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"A remarkable compression of time, memory, and sentiment -- rather as if Hemingway had been turned loose on Proust . . ." San Francisco Chronicle
By the New York Times Bestselling author of "Almost Perfect" and "Careless Love," a brilliant novel tracing the tangled, heart-warming and heartbreaking relationships of a group of intelligent and attractive young women as they grow to maturity over the course of four explosive decades in American life -- from the forties to the eighties. Sharing tears and laughter . . . and, sometimes, men, the women learn what they can really count on -- themselves and each other.
"These women, at the same time friends and enemies, touch each other's lives in ways no one else can -- not even lovers or husbands. . . Alice Adams must be one of her own superior women." United Press International
By the New York Times Bestselling author of "Almost Perfect" and "Careless Love," a brilliant novel tracing the tangled, heart-warming and heartbreaking relationships of a group of intelligent and attractive young women as they grow to maturity over the course of four explosive decades in American life -- from the forties to the eighties. Sharing tears and laughter . . . and, sometimes, men, the women learn what they can really count on -- themselves and each other.
"These women, at the same time friends and enemies, touch each other's lives in ways no one else can -- not even lovers or husbands. . . Alice Adams must be one of her own superior women." United Press International
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Alice Adams, born in Virginia and educated at Radcliffe College, is the author of ten highly praised novels. Her short stories have appeared in twenty-two O. Henry Award scollections and several volumes of Best American Short Stories. She has been the recipient of an Academy and Institute Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ms. Adams' other novels include Almost Perfect, a New York Times Notable Book, and Medicine Men, both published by Washington Square Press. She lives in San Francisco.
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Barbara Koenig Quart Ms. magazine Adams has a way of capturing the multilayered reality of what passes between people in a moment in time....Superior Women has keen things to say about women past and present, and is pleasurable, intelligent reading. -- Review
Reads easily, even breathlessly...the subtle but intensely felt shifts of closeness among the young women are lovingly and expertly laid bare. -- John Updike
[T]he tune being called in Superior Women is tricky. It lulls you, and surely the author means it to, with its harmonious form.... For Miss Adams, applying her elegant, rhythmic style to the form, the challenge lies in making it new, fitting it to her own literary place and our time. -- The New York Times Book Review, Lois Gould
Reads easily, even breathlessly...the subtle but intensely felt shifts of closeness among the young women are lovingly and expertly laid bare. -- John Updike
[T]he tune being called in Superior Women is tricky. It lulls you, and surely the author means it to, with its harmonious form.... For Miss Adams, applying her elegant, rhythmic style to the form, the challenge lies in making it new, fitting it to her own literary place and our time. -- The New York Times Book Review, Lois Gould
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- PublisherFawcett
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0449207463
- ISBN 13 9780449207468
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages377
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