Another You | Another You

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Author: Ann Beattie
First Published: 1995
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The 1990’s
Setting: A small New Hampshire college town
Principal Characters: Marshall Lockard, Sonja Lockard, Eveline (Evie) Martine Delia Lockard, Cheryl Lanier, Tony Hembley, Jack MacCallum, Gordon Lockard, Jenny Oughton
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Marriage, Brothers, Adultery, Learning or scholarship
Locales: New Hampshire

Another You is Ann Beattie’s fourth published novel; she has also produced several collections of short fiction. This novel focuses on Marshall Lockard, a professor of English at a small college in New Hampshire and a man of limited emotional response. He has a childless marriage that is comfortable for him. He has a job that allows him to indulge his love for literature without becoming too involved in the lives of his students. He has a stepmother who reared him and who is now in a nursing home; he does not visit her but leaves that duty to Sonja, his wife.

Another You | Another You

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