The Stories of Alice Adams

“Alice Adams has an inimitable ‘voice”— quick, deft, brilliantly evocative and specific. There is always something special about a story of hers, like a watercolor perfectly executed.”
—Joyce Carol Oates


“No other writer in recent memory has called to mind quite so clearly the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” —The Washington Post 

“These are old-fashioned stories, artfully simple in structure, rich in precise language, and consistently moving . . . Stories that recall such past masters as Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Mansfield.” –Jim Baker, Newsweek

“Readers already in love with Adams will be pleased to re-encounter—and those new to her pleased to discover—the seemingly offhand openings that carry the reader deep into the story, the swift characterizations, the effortless shifts in point of view and, of course, the almost casual but dazzling sentences.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

“[A] master of the genre.” —Los Angeles Times
 
“Alice Adams turns dreams and moments, the stuff of memories, inside out and makes of them beautiful, haunting, bittersweet tales.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“Her stories generate a unique kind of suspense, at once comic and sinister, between desire and the reticences that create and thwart it. She is an altogether exceptional writer.”
—Richard Poirier
 
“Sophisticated, charming, often nostalgic, and so artfully written that half the time you don’t know that you are reading one of the best writers around.” —Boston Globe
 
“Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams . . . How can one person know so much? —Beverly Lowry, New York Times Book Review