Superior Women: A Novel

By Alice Adams

“Reads easily, even breathlessly. . . . The subtle but intensely felt shifts of closeness among the young women are lovingly and expertly laid bare.” -- John Updike
 
This ambitious and richly compelling Superior Women is in the grand tradition of The Group and Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others, a tradition continued by J. Courtney Sullivan’s Commencement.
 
Radcliffe, 1943. Five young women, newly admitted to college, meet for the first time. Taking us into their lives at college, and beyond, through four tumultuous and crowded decades,  Alice Adams has given us a novel rich in all tee pleasures of characterization and incident and social observation that we have come to expect from her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jun 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9780307798282

Alice Adams

Alice Adams has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Bristol and an MA from the University of Manchester, and since a stint as an analyst in the City has had fiction published in various places including The Times and Dark Mountain. This is her first novel. She lives in north London but escapes into the wilderness as often as possible.

Reviews for Superior Women

[briannad84 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book I liked better than Caroline's Daughter's, and even though I read the whole thing, I still wasn't horribly crazy about it. It's not one I think I would read again. It reminded me very much of Valley of the Dolls and just the sheer stupidity of some people! But I liked the characters of Megan and Peg and Jane. But it seemed like all any of the characters did was screw around and then got pissed when their spouse/lover did the same thing!