Category Archives: Adams, Alice
Alice Adams. After the War. New York: Knopf, 2000.
This novel, Adams’s last, continues the story of the Baird family begun in A Southern Exposure. The story is set in the period during and immediately after World War II in the fictional Piedmont town of Pinehill. In tracing a … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Adams, Alice, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Orange, Piedmont
Alice Adams. A Southern Exposure. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
At the end of the Great Depression, Harry and Cynthia Baird and their 11-year-old daughter move from Connecticut to Pinehill, N.C., a fictional town probably based on Chapel Hill. Hoping to escape debt, drinking problems, and past mistakes, the family … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1995, Adams, Alice, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Orange, Piedmont
