Books Briefly
Adam, Alice
Books Briefly Five Women's Lives SUPERIOR WOMEN by Alice Adams Alfred A. Knopf. 396 pp. $16.95. Whether or not you went to college and had your first affairs during World War II, traveled as...
...The women's lives are traced with a skill that keeps you reading and caring what happens...
...embittered Cathy with a child fathered by a priest, and bright Janet who first subordinates herself to her successful playwright husband and their precocious son...
...Books Briefly Five Women's Lives SUPERIOR WOMEN by Alice Adams Alfred A. Knopf...
...Alice Adams's portraits of four other college mates also are well-drawn: sleek, sophisticated Lavinia...
...Whether or not you went to college and had your first affairs during World War II, traveled as an innocent to postwar Paris, slogged through the McCarthy era, marched in civil rights and antiwar demonstrations in the 1960s, and subsequently went off to a country commune to work with the homeless, this novel about some women who did all these things may ensnare you...
...big clumsy Peg, who finally extricates herself from a sprawling family life to find self-fulfillment in good causes...
...she keeps in touch with old Radcliffe friends through marriages, pregnancies, affairs, divorces, and professional and political involvements...
...The sympathetic and earthy Megan is the easiest to identify with...
Vol. 49 • March 1985 • No. 3
