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Book Review of Superior Women

Superior Women
Superior Women
Author: Alice Adams
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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"They met at Radcliffe in the 1940's - five young women on their own for the first time. Lavinia, the perfect debutante...Cathy, the quiet child of a Catholic Philadelphia family...Peg, the comforter, the caretaker, the most vulnerable...Janet, small, fiesty, Jewish. And, at the heart of the book, Megan, who has come from California eager to be a part of the East Coast establishment.

They are beautiful. They are strong. They are intelligent. They are determined. They are superior women... and this marvelous, beautifully written novel tells the story of their lives through the turbulent decades of our times."