Beattie, Ann
Beattie, Ann( 1947– ),born in Washington, D.C. Her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976), presents a man in his twenties lonely and yearning for love, a frustrated, bewildered figure of the 1960s; and her second, Falling in Place (1980), set in the late 1970s, treats the loveless marriage of an advertising executive aged 40; Love Always (1985) deals with a writer about love who is deserted by her lover; Alex Katz (1987) dramatizes a painter; and Picturing Will (1990) renders a special situation in depicting the life of 5-year-old Will, whose mother goes to work as a photographer when deserted by her now remarried husband (Will's father) and is having a romance with a new man. Recent novels include My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997) and The Doctor's House (2002). Distortions (1976), was her first book of short stories; it was followed by the story collections Secrets and...
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