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Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer- signed by author Carol Skienicka
- Item Number
- 136
- Estimated Value
- 35 USD
- Sold
- 15 USD to Martha1602
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Biography of San Francisco novelist Alice Adams by award-winning Sonoma County author Carol Sklenicka.
Autographed by author! (personalized by request)
New - Hardcover
A great Christmas Gift for the writer on your list, a history buff, or for anyone who believes in living their dreams!
Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. After college at Radcliffe and a year in Paris, she moved to San Francisco. Always a rebel in good-girl’s clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictures that bound women in midcentury America. Divorced with a child to raise, she worked at secretarial jobs for two decades before she could earn a living as a writer. One of only four winners of the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement, Adams wove her life into her fiction and used her writing to understand the changing tides of the twentieth century. Her work portrays vibrant characters both young and old who live on the edge of their emotions, absorbed by love affairs yet always determined to be independent and to fulfill their personal destinies.
With the same meticulous research and vivid storytelling she brought to Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, Carol Sklenicka integrates the drama of Adams’s deeply felt, elegantly fierce life with a cascade of events—the civil rights and women’s movements, the sixties counterculture, and sexual freedom. This biography’s revealing analyses of Adams’s stories and novels from Careless Love to Superior Women to The Last Lovely City, and her extensive interviews with Adams’s family and friends, among them Mary Gaitskill, Diane Johnson, Anne Lamott, and Alison Lurie, give us the definitive story of a writer often dubbed “America’s Colette.” Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer captures not just a beloved woman’s life in full, but a crucial span of American history.
Item Special Note
Autographed by author (personalized by request) Author will ship book to you anywhere in the U.S. , or deliver it personally, in Sonoma County!
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Carol Sklenicka
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