Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer by Carol Sklenicka

Author:Carol Sklenicka [Sklenicka, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2019-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

Wilson did not stop with diagnosing a problem. Her five-page, elite-typed, single-spaced offer to accept the novel, dated July 11, 1973, gave excruciatingly detailed suggestions for the rewrite she would require, though an eager reader could find praise there as well.

Alice Adams was that eager reader. On August 3, Adams responded that she was excited and “really turned on” by Wilson’s letter: “I could not be more pleased at the prospect of working on that book with you. And I’ve looked forward to writing you”—while waiting for Abels to complete negotiations that led to a $5,000 advance—“as I’ve looked forward to seeing someone with whom I could talk.”

Thus began a conversation destined to last for the rest of Adams’s writing life.

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