After the War - Softcover

"Los Angeles Times Imagine God as a small-town gossip and you'll get the feel of Alice Adams' eleventh and last novel....[It] excels in evoking a nearly lost world.

In a poignant final bow, Alice Adams' posthumously published last novel returns to the land of her birth and bears the supreme style and grace that earned her the reputation as one of the finest writers of her time. After the War Reviving the cast of her acclaimed novel "A Southern Exposure, Alice Adams brings the American South to vivid life through the residents of the small town of Pinehill. When they moved here from the North, Cynthia and Harry Baird sought a simpler place in which to raise their daughter, Abigail. Now, with World War II raging, Harry off fighting it, and Cynthia's string of affairs showing no signs of abatement, Abigail is bound for college where she'll have to face the complexities of life head-on. And as Cynthia grows aware of the bigotry and anti-Semitism around her, Pinehill suddenly seems less the idyllic Southern town and more a reflection of the growing pains of the nation at large. Evoking the internal and external worlds of Alice Adams' complex characters with the precision and pathos that watermark her body of work, "After The War is a charming and passionate novel that captures both the essence of an era and the spirit of a beloved writer.