Adams' short stories are much better than this novel, which is short on plot. The stock characters aren't engaging and the whole seems like an exercise or practice for the author. (

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bohemima | Dec 9, 2009 |

I absolutely love books that tell the stories of multiple, interconnected characters that span several decades, and Superior Women by the late Alice Adams is no exception. I don't know why, but I get a thrill out of watching characters evolve over time and seeing how things done by one character affect the others.

Superior Women follows Megan Greene as she moves from her parents' home in California to Radcliffe in the early 1940s, chasing a Harvard boy she met over the summer. At Radcliffe, she meets a group of girls: Lavinia, the sexy bitchy one, Peg, the motherly one, Cathy, the smart one, and Janet, who's not part of the clique. Megan is close to each of them at different points in her life.

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"A remarkable compression of time, memory, and sentiment -- rather as if Hemingway had been turned loose on Proust . . ." San Francisco Chronicle
By the New York Times Bestselling author of "Almost Perfect" and "Careless Love," a brilliant novel tracing the tangled, heart-warming and heartbreaking relationships of a group of intelligent and attractive young women as they grow to maturity over the course of four explosive decades in American life -- from the forties to the eighties. Sharing tears and laughter . . . and, sometimes, men, the women learn what they can really count on -- themselves and each other.
"These women, at the same time friends and enemies, touch each other's lives in ways no one else can -- not even lovers or husbands. . . Alice Adams must be one of her own superior women." United Press International

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