Picturing Will - Softcover

Ann Beattie was born in Washington DC. She is the author of three other novels - Chilly Scenes of Winter, Faling in Lace and Love Always - as well as four collections of short stories. In 1980 she receieved the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institue of Arts and Letters. Ann Beattie lives with her husband in Charlottesville, Virginia.

ll, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jody's perfect -- perhaps too perfect -- lover; and Wayne, the rather who left Will without warning and now sees his infrequent visits as a crimp in his bedhopping. Beattie shows us how these lives intersect, attract, and repel one another with dazzling shifts and moments of heartbreaking directness.
From the Trade Paperback edition.