The Boston Globe, April 27th, 1997
MY LIFE, STARRING DARA FALCON By Ann Beattie. Knopf. 307 pp. $24. Gail Caldwell is chief book critic of the Globe. Beyond all the au courant icons and cultural malaise, Ann Beattie's fiction has the memorable asset of capturing a certain quality of light -- a realm of emotion so private and unspoken that it seems as natural as air. It's a particular kind of truth, belonging to a generation that came of age in the '60s and '70s and that therefore has little sense of a world without irony or betrayal. Beattie's self-appointed task has been to populate this world not with unequivocal despair but ...
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