The Washington Post, July 8th, 2001
William Styron's daughter Alexandra debuts with All the Finest Girls (Little, Brown, $23.95), a hauntingly grim, angry novel about a seriously dysfunctional, "love handicapped" family. Her narrator, Adelaide Abraham, is the withdrawn, difficult only child of a well- to-do bit-part actress and a bitter essayist. During a parental squabble witnessed by young Addy from under the piano, her father poses a pointed question that undoubtedly resonates for Alexandra Styron: "Do you think it's possible to be a great artist as the progeny of one?" But Styron's main concerns here are love and mattering t...
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