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The Doctor's House
The Doctor's House
The Doctor's House
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The Doctor's House

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A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ann Beattie has won three O.Henry Awards and the PEN/Bernard Malamud Award. The Washington Post says "few novelists are more adept at creating fictional atmospheres." This novel, framed in a trilogy of voices, is a complex portrait of one family and the fictions a mother, son, and daughter create to navigate their lives.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 6, 2008
ISBN9781440795787
The Doctor's House
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Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, 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, Virginia, and Florida.

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    This is a clever novel of family dysfunction. The "Doctor's house' was ruled by a monster and painful secrets emerge and shift through the varying memories of the wife and two adult children. In this dark tale Ms Beattie still manages to inject humour, irony and wit .