The last lovely city
Subtitle: stories
By: by Alice Adams
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780679454410
Subjects: Social life and customs; Short stories; Fiction
Description: Stories about love in middle age. The story, Old Love Affairs, is a triangle in which a man pursues a woman who pursues another man, His Women is on a man whose women are inevitably unfaithful, while The Islands is a romance which goes sour when a woman discovers the man's true feelings for cats.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: His women; title: The haunted beach; title: Great sex; title: Raccoons; title: Old love affairs; title: A very nice dog; title: The visit; title: The last lovely city; title: The islands; title: The drinking club; title: Patients; title: The wrong Mexico; title: Earthquake damage.