Another You

by Ann Beattie

Overview

To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679734642
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/27/1996
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	Reprinted Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ann Beattie has published eight novels and ten collections of stories, among them Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, The Burning House, Love Always, Picturing Will, and Another You. She was the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia (emerita). She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key West, Florida.

Hometown:

Maine and Key West, Florida

Date of Birth:

September 8, 1947

Place of Birth:

Washington, D.C.

Education:

B.A., American University, 1969; M.A., University of Connecticut, 1970

Editorial Reviews

"Powerful and entertaining...Her best novel to date and one of the very richest and satisfying new books I've read in years." -- Washington Post Book World

Howard Frank Mosher