Chilly Scenes of Winter

by Ann Beattie

Overview

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 a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679732341
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/28/1991
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	229,237
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.61(d)

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.

Hometown:

Maine and Key West, Florida

Date of Birth:

September 8, 1947

Place of Birth:

Washington, D.C.

Education:

B.A., American University, 1969; M.A., University of Connecticut, 1970

Editorial Reviews

"Chilly Scenes falls beautifully...(Beattie's) style builds around as a maze of familiar truth that nevertheless has something airy, eerie, and in the end lovely about it." -- The New Yorker

John Updike