My Life, Starring Dara Falcon |
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Author:
| Beattie, Ann |
ISBN: | 978-0-679-45502-8 |
Publication Date: | May 1997 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Knopf |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Dara Falcon is brilliant, manipulative, a pathological liar. The novel's narrator, Jean Warner, is perfect prey for her. Suddenly Jean's life, her marriage--her idea of herself--are dramatically wrenched out of their seemingly comfortable, if unexamined, balance. And in the process, one of Ann Beattie's urgent themes--the sometimes subtle and sometimes startling difference between how things look and how things are--is compellingly explored.
Dara Falcon is brilliant, manipulative, a pathological liar. The novel's narrator, Jean Warner, is perfect prey for her. Suddenly Jean's life, her marriage--her idea of herself--are dramatically wrenched out of their seemingly comfortable, if unexamined, balance. And in the process, one of Ann Beattie's urgent themes--the sometimes subtle and sometimes startling difference between how things look and how things are--is compellingly explored.