Chilly Scenes of Winter

Ann Beattie

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 18, 2011 - Fiction - 288 pages

This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 8
• Section 3: 20
• Section 4: 33
• Section 5: 57
• Section 6: 93
• Section 7: 121
• Section 8: 143
• Section 9: 170
• Section 10: 203
• Section 11: 221
• Section 12: 234
• Section 13: 245

About the author

Ann Beattie has published eight novels and ten collections of stories, among them Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, The Burning House, Love Always, Picturing Will, and Another You. She was the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia (emerita). She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key West, Florida.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chilly Scenes of Winter; Vintage Contemporaries
• Author: Ann Beattie
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 0307790754, 9780307790750
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary