Second Chances
A Novel
Published on 1. June 2011
320 pages
978-0-307-79826-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Alice Adams turns dreams and moments, the stuff of memories, inside out and makes of them beautiful, haunting, bittersweet tales." --Publishers Weekly
Second Chances, perhaps Alice Adams most accomplished novel, is a rich, moving, and beautifully drawn portrait of six women and men, friends for years, who suddenly, and with amazement, find themselves growing old.
They live in a beautiful small California town called San Sebastian, and they see each other almost daily-- Dudley and Sam Venable; Edward Crane and his younger lover, Freddy Fuentes; the widowed Celeste Timberlake; the eccentric, secretive Polly Blake. With generosity and humor and remarkable insight, Adams takes us into rich emotional territory in a novel that evokes the ways in which people continually astonish themselves, at any age, with their capacity for wonder and change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
1,95 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-307-79826-8 (9780307798268)
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ADAMS
Second Chances
Book
09/1989
Random House Value Publishing
€24.59
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Alice Adams
Second Chances
Book
05/1989
Fawcett Books
€24.56
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Alice Adams
Second Chances
Book
04/1988
Alfred A. Knopf
€37.44
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Person
Alice Adams was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and raised in North Carolina, and graduated from Radcliffe College. She was the recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and the O. Henry Lifetime Achievement Award. 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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Second Chances
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- The Past
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- The Present
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Other Books by This Author
- A Note About the Author
