Picturing Will

Written by Ann Beattie

Narrated by Ann Beattie

A complex look at adulthood through the eyes of one remarkable child.

Five-year-old Will is the precocious child of Jody and Wayne. Jody is a woman who dreams of becoming a celebrity and is having an affair with a man named Mel, while Wayne is no stranger to infidelity, either. The details of their intertwined lives form an intricate and often disturbing picture of modern day life— a life in which Will is unable to achieve a sense of normalcy from either parent.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
• Release date: May 1, 1990
• ISBN: 9781614676256

Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, 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, Virginia, and Florida.