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My Life, Starring Dara Falcon. Ann Beattie. 3.11. 124ratings15reviews. In her latest novel, the author of Another You combines intensely realistic description and an effortless command of mood to examine the treacherous difference between love and fascination--between what we know about other people and what we think we know.
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- Paperback
- Ann Beattie
A housewife who leads an uncomplicated life in New England describes the way another woman breezed into town and took over her life. The new arrival, Dara Falcon, is an expert manipulator and a pathological liar, and housewife Jean Warner is the perfect prey.
29 apr 1997 · 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.
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- 1997
- Ann Beattie
- Ann Beattie
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How does Beattie use Grace’s pedestrian narrative, My Life, as a structural and thematic element? What does it mean to tell the story of one’s own life? Why does Beattie call into question the truthfulness of what Grace, and Dara, tell others about themselves?
Charismatic and theatrical, she has no sooner arrived in a New England town than she is wreaking havoc in the lives of her new friend Jean and her family. As Ann Beattie follows Dara's antics,...
