Almost Perfect

Punctured by frequent fights and impassioned reconciliations, Stella and Richard's love affair threatens to rupture under the force of a dark secret, in a novel chosen by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 1993. Reprint.

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 Superior Women, a New York Times bestseller, and Medicine Men, both published by Washington Square Press. She lives in San Francisco.