Description

Several authors translate the selection and level of human knowledge as truthfully as Alice Adams. A storyteller whose function "recognition[s] these past masters as Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Mansfield" (Newsweek), Adams' spectacular new group of stories further graphs the psychological minefield of friendship, gender, storage, and forgiveness. Offered in two pieces, the selection goes from Bay Area to New York to Mexico to Hawaii, providing thirteen effective tales which are delicate, wealthy, amd smart, however remarkably unsentimental. "The Final Lovely City" is just a wonderful exploration of the torn remains of old lifestyles and old fans that never really get left out, and of enthusiasm, of purity also effortlessly bartered for encounter.