Alice Adams plumbs middle-class lives

Chicago Sun-Times | March 27, 1988| | Copyright

Second Chances By Alice Adams. Knopf. $18.95.

Like many fine women writers of the past 25 years, Alice Adams is a 20th century practitioner of social fiction whose form was set during the 19th century.

The feminist movement of the 1960s, with its insistence on the value and importance of domestic life as well as women's right to have a voice in larger arenas, gave female writers confidence that their experiences were worth recording. It also reclaimed the traditional novel from the disfavor of modernists, who felt that tales of quiet middle-class life set against a backdrop of finely ...

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