Families and Survivors
- Authors
- Adams, Alice
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Tags
- juvenile fiction , southern state , girls & women , people & places , california , fiction , general , southern states , united states , girls
- ISBN
- 9780394491677
- Date
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.80 MB
- Lang
- en
“A you-can’t-put-it-down book. . . . Alice Adams has found a new way to tell the great American dynasty stories we all love.” -- The Washington Post
Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a Southern-born woman as she reviews her life.
From Louisa Calloway’s Southern girlhood to her debut to her first marriage, all the time surrounded by a certain tradition and all the time resisting. In lieu of her conservative, bigoted father, she chooses men who are liberal, free-spoken, Jewish. Nevertheless her first marriage is unhappy, but her second promises to be sounder, as she discovers what she really wants, can have, can become—what she really is.