Ann Beattie

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.

Chilly Scenes of Winter is Ann Beattie's first novel, published by Doubleday in September, 1976. The marketing copy from the inside flap of the first-edition dust jacket declared, "This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends …