Love Always - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Beattie (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From an award-winning, national bestselling author comes a "ferociously funny" novel (The Los Angeles Times) about an advice columnist in Vermont whose life is about to be turned upside down.

Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic counter-cultural magazine, finds her unflappable Vermont life completely upended by her teenaged soap-opera-star niece, Nicole, and her hangers-on.

Review Quotes

"Her most comic novel thus far ... raises serious questions about the nature of love."--The New York Times Book Review

"A master chronicler of our life and times."--Newsday

"A very funny book. . . . If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of the late 20th-century media-fringe America . . . the outcome might have been something like this."--Margaret Atwood

"Ferociously funny."--The Los Angeles Times

"Beattie's new novel, her third, is a gratifying surprise. Love Always will be welcomed by the large and loyal Beattie readership, but there is much that recommends it to the previously unconverted."--Harper's Bazaar

"Beattie's most comic--indeed her first satiric--work to date. . . . Much of the book's authenticity derives from the accretion of felt detail--a Beattie trademark. She captures 1984 Vermont with right-on references to Cyndi Lauper, Horchow catalogues, and 'pre-Cabbage Patch' Coleco."--The Christian Science Monitor

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.