ACCLAIM FOR
ANN BEATTIE

“Ann Beattie is a genuine literary talent.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer

“Beattie has rendered the nuances of relationships as masterfully as John Updike. … She writes with such precision that her words seem to create photographs in the mind.”

—Houston Chronicle

“[Beattie is] a master chronicler of our life and times.”

—Newsday

“Beattie evokes her characters with clarity and accuracy and creates a poignancy around them … the kind of powerful, haunting quality that we feel in The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby.”

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“[With] her absolute ear and her masterly deadpan humor, the results are dazzling. Beattie is a natural writer.”

—The New Yorker

Beattie writes with quiet and subdued sympathy and exhibits a casual grace and knowing moves.”

—Time