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Adams, Alice 1926-1999

Overview
Works:66 works in 238 publications in 10 languages and 23,116 library holdings
Genres:Domestic fiction  Love stories  Historical fiction  Didactic fiction  Medical novels  Short stories  Bildungsromans 
Roles:Editor
Classifications:ps3551.d324, 813.54
Most widely held works by Alice Adams
Superior women by Alice Adams( Book )
30 editions published between 1984 and 1998 in 8 languages and held by 2,110 libraries worldwide
Follows the lives of five women, from their first meeting during freshman orientation week at Radcliffe in 1943 until 1983.
Caroline's daughters by Alice Adams( Book )
15 editions published between 1991 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 1,754 libraries worldwide
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 Francisco.
Second chances : a novel by Alice Adams( Book )
15 editions published between 1988 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 1,590 libraries worldwide
"A Borzoi book." A group of men and women, look into the past for understanding and to the future for second chances as they grow older.
A southern exposure : a novel by Alice Adams( Book )
12 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 1,504 libraries worldwide
In the 1930s, a Connecticut couple moves to a small North Carolina town and discovers a new world. A portrait of the South before the civil rights movement, when to discriminate by race, creed and gender was perfectly normal.
After the war : a novel by Alice Adams( Book )
7 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 1,431 libraries worldwide
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.
Almost perfect : a novel by Alice Adams( Book )
12 editions published between 1993 and 1998 in English and Danish and held by 1,431 libraries worldwide
A couple is torn apart as the man sinks into madness.
Medicine men : a novel by Alice Adams( Book )
8 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,305 libraries worldwide
The trials of a woman with cancer. The doctors she sees attribute her fatigue and headaches to everything but cancer until, finally, one of them discovers a tumor. Which is how she falls into the clutches of Dr. Mark Jacobs whose treatment is accompanied by bullying and proposals of marriage. Now in addition to cancer, she has him giving her headaches.
The stories of Alice Adams by Alice Adams( Book )
6 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 1,233 libraries worldwide
A collection of fifty-three short stories 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.
Return trips : stories by Alice Adams( Book )
7 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 1,122 libraries worldwide
After you've gone : stories by Alice Adams( Book )
5 editions published between 1989 and 1990 in English and held by 1,011 libraries worldwide
The last lovely city : stories by Alice Adams( Book )
7 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 933 libraries worldwide
Stories about love in middle age. The story, Old Love Affairs, is a triangle in which a man pursues a woman who pursues another man, His Women is on a man whose women are inevitably unfaithful, while The Islands is a romance which goes sour when a woman discovers the man's true feelings for cats.
Beautiful girl : stories by Alice Adams( Book )
8 editions published between 1978 and 1988 in English and held by 927 libraries worldwide
Rich rewards by Alice Adams( Book )
5 editions published between 1980 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 879 libraries worldwide
Daphne Matthiessen flees to San Francisco from a bad love affair in Boston, and finds herself moving toward regaining a lost love.
Listening to Billie by Alice Adams( Book )
9 editions published between 1977 and 1991 in English and held by 826 libraries worldwide
To see you again : stories by Alice Adams( Book )
5 editions published between 1982 and 1983 in English and held by 794 libraries worldwide
Families and survivors by Alice Adams( Book )
12 editions published between 1974 and 1991 in English and held by 792 libraries worldwide
The best American short stories, 1991( Book )
3 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in English and held by 487 libraries worldwide
Selected from American and Canadian magazines, this collection includes stories by Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike.
Mexico : some travels and some travelers there by Alice Adams( Book )
7 editions published between 1990 and 1992 in English and held by 471 libraries worldwide
Careless love by Alice Adams( Book )
4 editions published between 1966 and 1989 in English and held by 92 libraries worldwide
Mexico by Alice Adams( Book )
2 editions published between 1990 and 1993 in English and held by 52 libraries worldwide
 
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Superior women
Alternative Names
Adams, Alice Boyd.
Adams, Alice Boyd, 1926-1999
Linenthal, Alice Boyd Adams, 1926-1999
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Caroline's daughtersSecond chances : a novelA southern exposure : a novelAfter the war : a novelAlmost perfect : a novelMedicine men : a novelThe stories of Alice AdamsThe last lovely city : stories
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