My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Beattie
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1970’s to the early 1990’s
- Setting: Primarily Dell, New Hampshire
- Principal Characters: Jean Warner, Dara Falcon, Bob Warner, Tom Van Sant, Frank Warner
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, Acting or actors, Friendship, 1980’s, Personality, Drama or dramatists
- Locales: New Hampshire
Unlike much of Ann Beattie’s fiction, My Life, Starring Dara Falcon does not have at its center a male-female relationship that disintegrates or develops. Rather, Beattie turns her camera-eye vision on a peculiar friendship between the narrator, Jean Warner, and the elusive but charismatic Dara Falcon. The title of the novel suggests the dual role these characters occupy in the narrative. While the plot ostensibly chronicles Jean’s attempts to develop her personality amid her husband’s smothering extended family, in many ways the novel has less to do with Jean and more to...
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