`SOUTHERN EXPOSURE' IS ALICE ADAMS AT HER WELL-HONED AND AMUSING BEST.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | November 12, 1995 | Copyright

Byline: JOCELYN MCCLURG

Alice Adams, whose recent novels and stories have offered withering, if amusing, commentaries on the overblown '80s, turns the clock back to the late years of the Depression in ``A Southern Exposure.''

The era may be a change of pace, but this is vintage Adams. Her delicately nuanced characterizations, acid (but subtle) social commentary and delicious soap-operatic (but always believable) storytelling survive this time-traveling journey intact. If anything, turning her gaze backward has refreshed Adams and sharpened her already ...

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