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With a foreword by Victoria Wilson, Alice Adams’s longtime editor. Famous for illuminating the hidden workings of human relationships, Alice Adams's work was a staple in The New Yorker and a mainstay of the O. Henry Award collections. The Stories of Alice Adams gathers fifty-three of her most celebrated pieces into one career-defining collection. In "Verlie I Say Unto You," the unexpected death of Verlie Jones's lover reveals the unsettling truth about her employers--that, though they "couldn't get along without" Verlie, their maid of ten years, she is nothing more than a stranger to them. In "Berkeley House," a disenfranchised daughter anguished over the sale of her childhood home, discovers that it does not hold the key to her happiness, and perhaps never did. In "Greyhound People," a woman repeatedly and purposely takes the wrong bus from work after meeting its warm and disarmingly candid cast of passengers. In story after story, insight joins with grace to show us the truth about the lives of people around us. A moving and elegant collection and the capstone to a brilliant career.

A warm, wise and witty novel about finding the courage to carry on despite life not always turning out as expected, and a powerful testament to love and friendship as the constants in an ever-changing world,Invincible Summer is a dazzling depiction of the highs and lows of adulthood and the greater forces that shape us.

Here in a single volume is the finest short fiction of the year, selected by distinguished novelist and short story writer Alice Adams. She brings together 20 outstanding works and, in her introduction, provides engaging commentary about the state of the art. Includes stories from Updike, Bass, Gordon and more.Foreword --Introduction / Alice Adams --The legend of Pig-Eye / Rick Bass --The disappeared / Charles Baxter --Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom --Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman --The trip back / Robert Olen Butler --The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. --Oil and water / Millicent Dillon --Another short day in La Luz / Harriet Doerr --The custodian / Deborah Eisenberg --Separation / Mary Gordon --The body shop / Elizabeth Graver --Houdini / Siri Hustvedt --Bologoye / Mikhail Iossel --Glossolalia / David Jauss --Viva la Tropicana / Leonard Michaels --Willing / Lorrie Moore --Friend of my youth / Alice Munro --American, abroad / Joyce Carol Oates --Dog stories / Francine Prose --A sandstone farmhouse / John Updike --Contributors' notes --100 other distinguished stories of 1990 --Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories

"Five young women meet at Radcliffe in the late 1930s and grow to maturity-through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages--in the fifties, sixties, and seventies"-- Amazon