Ann Beattie

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 …

Now back in print, Ann Beattie's finest short story collection, reissued to accompany the publication of her latest novel, "The Doctor's House." Most of the characters in "Where You'll Find Me" grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, are in their twenties and thirties and embody a curious, yet familiar, fusion of hope and …

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.