';Sophisticated, charming, often nostalgic, and so artfully written that half the time you don't know that you are reading on of the best writers around.' --The Boston Globe In her final collection, Alice Adams ranges from San Francisco to a North Carolina college town, to a run-down resort in Mexico. And a grouping of four stories at the end follows a divorced psychiatrist in an arc that constitutes a short novel. Included are: ';His Women,' ';Great Sex,' ';Old Love Affairs,' and ';The Drinking Club,' ';Patients, ';The Wrong Mexico, '; and ';Earthquake Damage.'