Alice Adams

Stories about love in middle age. The story, Old Love Affairs, is a triangle in which a man pursues a woman who pursues another man, His Women is on a man whose women are inevitably unfaithful, while The Islands is a romance which goes sour when a woman discovers the man's true feelings for cats.

When a woman learns that her headaches are caused by a rare malignancy, her only guide through a frightening new world of oncologists, radiologists, specialists, and clinics, is the doctor whom she once considered only an annoying admirer.