The English Pupil | Contemporary Authors Online
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of Andrea Barrett's work.
Contemporary Authors Online
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of Andrea Barrett's work.
Andrea Barrett is an acclaimed writer. "She crafts powerfully vivid works of fiction," lauded Samuel Baker's Publishers Weekly profile of Barrett. Lucid Stars, her first novel, spans more than twenty years in detailing the dissolution of an American family. The novel's heroine, Penny Webb, falls in love with, and is soon married to, carefree skier Benjamin Day. Almost immediately, Penny finds herself pregnant and unhappy, for Benjamin has...
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