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...recurrent theme in Alice Adams' latest collection of short stories, The Last Lovely City. Before you write her book off as fluffy beach reading, though, know that it isn't about just any kind of sex--this is about what one of the characters (embarrassed and somewhat surprised that she can still get crushes "at her age") calls "geriatric sex." This caveat, coupled with the novel's fun themes of loss, aging and solitude, might take this off the list of cheery summer flings...
Though it won't join Michael Crichton and Agatha Christie on your beach mat, there is plenty to recommend The Last Lovely City...
Several stories explore the characters' futile search for something that is no longer there. In "The Haunted Beach," art dealer Penelope has avoided a Mexican town for years because beautiful memories of it include a man she would rather forget. When she feels she has done so and goes back with a different companion, nothing is as she remembers it, and she vainly tries to recapture her past feelings for the place. Its perfect beauty, at least in her eyes, is gone. Just as she is less happy and older than on previous visits, now the grass is dingier...
...recurrent theme in Alice Adams' latest collection of short stories, The Last Lovely City. Before you write her book off as fluffy beach reading, though, know that it isn't about just any kind of sex--this is about what one of the characters (embarrassed and somewhat surprised that she can still get crushes "at her age") calls "geriatric sex." This caveat, coupled with the novel's fun themes of loss, aging and solitude, might take this off the list of cheery summer flings...
Though it won't join Michael Crichton and Agatha Christie on your beach mat, there is plenty to recommend The Last Lovely City...