ANOTHER YOU (Vintage Contemporaries)

Beattie, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679734643 ISBN 13: 9780679734642

Publisher: Random House, Inc., 2008

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.

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.

Synopsis:

In the wake of a failing marriage and a stepmother's impending death, Marshall and Sonja Lockard are thrust into a reassessment of their lives by the arrival of one of Marshall's colleagues. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. NYT.