The Stories of Alice Adams
With a foreword by Victoria Wilson, Alice Adams's longtime editor. Famous for illuminating the hidden workings of human relationships, Alice Adams's work was a staple in The New Yorker and a mainstay of the O. Henry Award collections. The Stories of Alice Adams gathers fifty-three of her most celebrated pieces into one career-defining collection. In Verlie I Say Unto You, the unexpected death of Verlie Jones's lover reveals the unsettling truth about her employers--that, though they couldn't get along without Verlie, their maid of ten years, she is nothing more than a stranger to them. In Berkeley House, a disenfranchised daughter anguish…
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- ISBN: 978-1-984898-11-1
- EAN: 9781984898111
- Produktnummer: 30603075
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 800 S.
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ALICE ADAMS was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina, and graduated from Radcliffe College. The recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, she received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was the author of five collections of short stories and ten novels, among them Listening to Billie, Superior Women, Second Chances, and A Southern Exposure. She lived in San Francisco until her death in 1999.
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