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Loading... Second Chancesby Alice Adams
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Written in an odd style, with lots of "quotation marks" around words. A readable story, dealing with old age & emotions & loss. Parts don't make much sense, the nutty CIA agent seems plopped in there for no reason. I had a little trouble with the ages of the characters, they didn't come clear to me, and they seemed a little inconsistent. The bit of "shock" at the ending was both completely obvious & a cheap tragedy. Or was it a final crime, that we, the audience can see but none of the protagonists can?  franoscar | Sep 16, 2007 |   no reviews | add a review
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In a moving and richly evocative novel about the remarkable capacity of the human spirit, Alice Adams brings readers into the beautiful community of San Sebastian, California, where a group of dear old friends have shared their lives for many wonderful, difficult years. It has taken writer Dudley Venable and her husband Sam thirty years to perfect their once-tumultuous marriage, but now they've almost got it right...lovely Celeste Timberlake, recently widowed, has found herself in the midst of a destructive new relationship...Edward Crane is desperately trying to hold on to his much-younger lover, Freddy Fuentes...and the group's eccentric, Polly Blake, shares everything but her own dark secrets. Together they make up a circle of deeply devoted friends who have weathered life together -- and discovered the resilience of the heart, the power of friendship, and the wonder of second chances.
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