The Boston Globe, January 21st, 1990
PICTURING WILL By Ann Beattie. Random House. 230 pp. $18.95. Most literary boomlets have one or two practitioners who so embody the trend that the writer's name becomes synonymous with it -- Raymond Carver with down-and-out realism, say. This pairing is a shorthand we use to think about the larger picture in fiction, but it can have the deleterious effect of stereotyping the writer or obscuring the work itself. Ann Beattie has taken the fall for the modern-malaise school ever since "Chilly Scenes of Winter" and "Falling in Place" appeared; she's become the sad-eyed lady of minimalism, the dazz...
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