Falling in Place

by Ann Beattie

Overview

An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull everyone down.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679731924
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/07/1991
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(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

....Falling in Place is a deliberately understated, wry comedy of manners. -- The New York Times Books of the Century

Charles McGrath