Almost Perfect
Alice Adams. Fawcett Books, $5.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-449-14892-1
Adams's heroine finds herself in an intense love affair with a man on the verge of madness in this affecting novel. (July)
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Reviewed on: 05/30/1994
Genre: Fiction
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