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Title: Picturing Will
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Ann Beattie
Narrator: Ann Beattie
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-14-17
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Ann Beattie's poignant novel Picturing Will is a complex look at adulthood through the eyes of one remarkable child. The desperate, troubled adult characters emerge, collapse, and reemerge again, as if in a kaleidoscope, around the central figure of young Will.
The details of those intertwined lives form a luminous, intricate, and often disturbing picture of modern day life, rendered here with remarkable insight and power.
Picturing Will ranks with the very best of Beattie's writing, blending a truly original plot with genuinely unique characters and breathtaking precise prose.
Members Reviews:
Boring Beyond Belief!
This was a required reading for a college course. Had it not been, I would of threw this out after the first chapter. There is no plot, the characters are boring, there's very little story telling, and after finishing it, I still don't know what the point of the book was. It was a bore the whole way through. Nothing made sense, you kept wondering where she was going with the story and then she went nowhere. GOD, what a boring book! FTR - I've never left a book review before. I'm hoping to spare anyone from reading this that isn't required too. I thought about throwing my copy out, but there is still a chance that some other poor soul will come upon it and attempt to read it. So to the fire pit this will go.
boring!
this was required reading for LIT 101, and it was one of the most boring books i have ever read. But if you are looking at this, it probably means it's required for you as well, so you have no choice.
Will's Life
This is a very well-written account of adult lives as perceived through their relationships with a young boy, Will.
The mother and father divorce when Will is young and the first half of the book is devoted to Will's life with his mother. The second half of the book is about Will with his father. The very last part is a flashback - Will is an adult viewing his childhood.
This book is very different from Ann Beattie's characteristic minimalist style writing, and much better!
UGH!
After having finished this novel, I have now read six of Ann Beattie's books -- her first four, written in the late 70s and early 80s, and two recent novels ANOTHER YOU (1995) and this book PICTURING WILL (1989). Clearly something happened during the intervening years. Whereas Beattie's early fiction was full of odd characters, delightful non-sequiters, and brilliant dialogue, PICTURING WILL is dull, dull, dull. The characters are totally bland and whereas a muscular plot might have fleshed them out more, there is no plot to speak of. Beattie looks at the lives of character and explains, explains, explains; she doesn't DRAMATIZE. This tendency not to dramatize was brilliantly exploited in her earlier work, which recreated the ennui and anomie of her characters lives in prose that was razor sharp. PICTURING WILL is filled with none-too-original characters doing nothing much in prose that is lackluster and undistinguished. PICTURING WILL is so bad it makes ANOTHER YOU look distinguished.
Insightful observations
Picturing Will offers an perceptive insight into the minds of serveral interesting characters from several different perspectives. The pace is fast, the story interesting, the character development solid if somewhat fragmented.
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Title: Picturing Will
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Ann Beattie
Narrator: Ann Beattie
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-14-17
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Ann Beattie's poignant novel Picturing Will is a complex look at adulthood through the eyes of one remarkable child. The desperate, troubled adult characters emerge, collapse, and reemerge again, as if in a kaleidoscope, around the central figure of young Will.
The details of those intertwined lives form a luminous, intricate, and often disturbing picture of modern day life, rendered here with remarkable insight and power.
Picturing Will ranks with the very best of Beattie's writing, blending a truly original plot with genuinely unique characters and breathtaking precise prose.
Members Reviews:
Boring Beyond Belief!
This was a required reading for a college course. Had it not been, I would of threw this out after the first chapter. There is no plot, the characters are boring, there's very little story telling, and after finishing it, I still don't know what the point of the book was. It was a bore the whole way through. Nothing made sense, you kept wondering where she was going with the story and then she went nowhere. GOD, what a boring book! FTR - I've never left a book review before. I'm hoping to spare anyone from reading this that isn't required too. I thought about throwing my copy out, but there is still a chance that some other poor soul will come upon it and attempt to read it. So to the fire pit this will go.
boring!
this was required reading for LIT 101, and it was one of the most boring books i have ever read. But if you are looking at this, it probably means it's required for you as well, so you have no choice.
Will's Life
This is a very well-written account of adult lives as perceived through their relationships with a young boy, Will.
The mother and father divorce when Will is young and the first half of the book is devoted to Will's life with his mother. The second half of the book is about Will with his father. The very last part is a flashback - Will is an adult viewing his childhood.
This book is very different from Ann Beattie's characteristic minimalist style writing, and much better!
UGH!
After having finished this novel, I have now read six of Ann Beattie's books -- her first four, written in the late 70s and early 80s, and two recent novels ANOTHER YOU (1995) and this book PICTURING WILL (1989). Clearly something happened during the intervening years. Whereas Beattie's early fiction was full of odd characters, delightful non-sequiters, and brilliant dialogue, PICTURING WILL is dull, dull, dull. The characters are totally bland and whereas a muscular plot might have fleshed them out more, there is no plot to speak of. Beattie looks at the lives of character and explains, explains, explains; she doesn't DRAMATIZE. This tendency not to dramatize was brilliantly exploited in her earlier work, which recreated the ennui and anomie of her characters lives in prose that was razor sharp. PICTURING WILL is filled with none-too-original characters doing nothing much in prose that is lackluster and undistinguished. PICTURING WILL is so bad it makes ANOTHER YOU look distinguished.
Insightful observations
Picturing Will offers an perceptive insight into the minds of serveral interesting characters from several different perspectives. The pace is fast, the story interesting, the character development solid if somewhat fragmented.