Last Lovely City

“Sophisticated, charming, often nostalgic, and so artfully written that half the time you don’t know that you are reading one of the best writers around.” —The Boston Globe

In her final collection, Alice Adams ranges from San Francisco to a North Carolina college town, to a run-down resort in Mexico. And a grouping of four stories at the end follows a divorced psychiatrist in an arc that constitutes a short novel.

Included are: “His Women,” “Great Sex,” “Old Love Affairs,” and “The Drinking Club,” “Patients,” “The Wrong Mexico,” and “Earthquake Damage.”