Picturing Will: A Novel

New York: Random House, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. First edition. Board edges a bit faded, otherwise an excellent copy. 1989 Hard Cover. 230 pp. "Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jody's perfect -- perhaps too perfect -- lover; and Wayne, the rather who left Will without warning and now sees his infrequent visits as a crimp in his bed-hopping. Beattie shows us how these lives intersect, attract, and repel one another with dazzling shifts and moments of heartbreaking directness.