Ann Beattie. The Doctor's House.
| Publisher | Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Publication | The Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0276-0045 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2002-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Ann Beattie |
| Author | n/a | Suzanne Scanlon |
| Related Content | Type |
| The Doctor’s House | Salem on Literature |
Scribner, 2002. 252 pp. $24.00.
Over the course of her long career, Ann Beattie has proven herself to be an artist firmly committed to the expansion and development of her craft. Read chronologically, her novels reveal an uncompromising and deliberate artist committed to extending the limitations of her previous work, in particular through an attention to issues of form and style. The Doctor's House, Beattie's seventh novel, is the latest result. Structurally, the novel is composed of monologues delivered by three family members: Nine, an agoraphobic book-editor; her mother,...
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