Alice Adams

Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey. Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate in 1998, into a world on the brink of the new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and keen to shrug off the socialist politics of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work at a big bank. Benedict, a budding scientist who's pined for Eva for years, stays on to do a physics PhD, and siblings Sylvie and Lucien pursue more freewheeling existences--she as an aspiring artist and he as a club promoter and professional partier. But as their dizzying twenties become their thirties, the once close-knit friends, now scattered and struggling to navigate thwarted dreams, lost jobs and broken hearts, find themselves drawn together once again in stunning and unexpected ways. Breathtaking in scope, this is sure to be the book of the summer.

Invincible Summer

A New York Times best-selling novel traces the friendships and inner lives of four varied young women who meet at Radcliffe at the end of World War II. By the author of Medicine Men. Reprint.

Superior Women

Richard Fallon and Stella Blake, a seemingly perfect couple living in San Francisco in the 1980s, head for a crash when Richard's erratic personality deteriorates into madness

Almost Perfect

An incisive portrait of the interconnected lives of thrice-married Caroline Carter and her five very different daughters--Sage, Liza, Fiona, Jill, and Portia--is set against the colorful backdrop of San Fransicco

Caroline's Daughters

Daphne Matthiessen flees to San Francisco from a bad love affair in Boston, and finds herself moving toward regaining a lost love.

Rich Rewards

Tells the stories of a maid, a college girl in Paris, a girl's visit to a psychiatrist, a burglary, two dissimilar brothers, a jealous husband, and an alcoholic heiress

Beautiful Girl and Other Stories

Transplanted Northerners Cynthia and Harry Baird face the changes brought by World War II and the growing anti-Semitism and racism in their adopted home of Pinehill, North Carolina.

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After the war

Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey. Inseparable throughout college, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie, and Lucien graduate in 1997, into an exhilarating world on the brink of a new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and eager to shrug off the socialist politics of her upbringing, Eva breaks away to work for a big bank. Benedict, a budding scientist who's pined for Eva for years, stays on to complete his PhD in physics, devoting his life to chasing particles as elusive as the object of his affection. Siblings Sylvie and Lucien, never much inclined toward mortgages or monogamy, pursue more bohemian existences-she as an aspiring artist and he as a club promoter and professional partyer. But as their twenties give way to their thirties, the group struggles to navigate their thwarted dreams. Scattered across Europe and no longer convinced they are truly the masters of their fates, the once close-knit friends find themselves filled with longing for their youth- and for one another. Broken hearts and broken careers draw the foursome together again, but in ways they never could have imagined. A dazzling depiction of the highs and lows of adulthood, Invincible Summer is a story about finding the courage to carry on in the wake of disappointment, and a powerful testament to love and friendship as the constants in an ever-changing world.

Describes life in the small Southern town of Pinehill at the end of World War II, as Cynthia Baird finds her life complicated by loneliness, the local racism and anti-Semitism, and a growing fear of Communism.

A Novel

After the War

Escaping from a poor job and a brush with adultery, the Bairds move to South Carolina during the Depression in the hopes of regaining their lost innocence, but their new home changes them in unexpected ways

A Southern Exposure

An outstanding array of fifty-three of Adams's finest pieces of short fiction reveals the author's evocative explorations into the mysteries of human relationships in "Verlie I Say Unto You," "Berkeley House," "Greyhound People," and other notable works. Reprint.

The Stories of Alice Adams

Thirteen rich, sensitive, powerful stories move from San Francisco to North Carolina to Mexico and Hawaii, revealing modern relationships in crisis. Reprint.

Stories

The Last Lovely City

Katrina Kenison

The Best American Short Stories, 1991

Fourteen stories that explore the themes of loss, separation and coping with change. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.

After You've Gone

Careless Love

Families and Survivors

A wonderful portrait of friends who have shared their lives together for over 30 years, helping each other through all of life's ups and downs and testing the limitations of the heart.

Second Chances

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“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.” --Ms. Magazine Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life. We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentatively begins a new life, with new lovers, new interests, new strength, even a new, more comfortable identity.

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