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Janus | Critical Overview

Reviews of Beattie’s work are often mixed; it seems as if critics either love or hate her work. Although her 1989 novel, Picturing Will, was both a popular and critical success, her short story collection Where You’ll Find Me—the collection which includes ‘‘Janus’’—met with mixed reviews.

For example, Thomas Edwards, in an otherwise fairly negative review appearing in The New York Times Book Review, singled out ‘‘Janus’’ as being ‘‘sufficiently open and worked out to give convenient access to the materials from which they are all...

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