{"product_id":"superior-women-book-alice-adams-9780671020682","title":"Superior Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe timeless coming-of-age novel about five young women who meet at Radcliffe College and together grow to maturity--through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages--from World War II to the 1980s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLavinia, Peg, and Cathy seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. None of them could know that their destinies are about to inextricably intertwine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross four decades, as time and events upend their expectations, these five women discover their sexuality, reveal their secrets, and struggle with independence--sometimes surrendering, sometimes making stunning choices. Now reissued thirty-five years after its original release, Alice Adams's \u003ci\u003eSuperior Women\u003c\/i\u003e, hailed as a remarkable compression of time, memory, and sentiment--rather as if Hemingway had been turned loose on Proust (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), is a richly drawn, uncompromising novel about women's intimate, interior lives for fans of Mary McCarthy's \u003ci\u003eThe Group \u003c\/i\u003eand Rona Jaffe's \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49908908130577,"sku":"CIN0671020684A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53025145323793,"sku":"CIN0671020684VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53049279742225,"sku":"CIN0671020684G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0671020684.jpg?v=1751295061","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/superior-women-book-alice-adams-9780671020682","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}