Where You’ll Find Me (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Beattie
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, Alienation, Women, Loneliness
Form and Content
Where You’ll Find Me is a collection of fifteen short stories that depict Ann Beattie’s chief concern: the alienated condition of modern women as reflected in their domestic relationships. Beattie has become famous because of her ability to describe the chronic loneliness, frustration, and hopelessness that many of her feminine readers know from personal experience. The women in these stories are often looking for love and marriage but finding that something about the modern condition makes these things hard to find and impossible to keep. Many...
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