The Doctor's House

Name: The Doctor's House
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ann Beattie
ISBN: 9781440795787

Author: Ann Beattie

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren, Suzanne Toren, Jeff Woodman

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/06/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ann Beattie has won three O.Henry Awards and the PEN/Bernard Malamud Award. The Washington Post says "few novelists are more adept at creating fictional atmospheres." This novel, framed in a trilogy of voices, is a complex portrait of one family and the fictions a mother, son, and daughter create to navigate their lives.

About 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on January 19, 2011

This one reminds me somewhat of The Corrections in that different sections provide the unvarnished outlooks of different people in a family. The main difference is that Beattie’s characters are in worse shape, psychologically, than my memory of Franzen's. The narrative begins with Nina, a freelan......more

Goodreads review by ashley on April 06, 2023

Neither the tone nor story possessed a lot of ups or downs, making it in and of itself feel very reliable. Plain. Matter of Fact. I appreciate the different perspectives, for being in Nina's head the entire time would have been a bit of a bore. I wish I could have cut scenes involving the doctor in......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 15, 2012

Pretty damn fantastic. The first third would almost make a great novella in itself, though the second two parts are definitely needed. Three separate characters (daughter, mother, son) discussing the same basic set of circumstances (namely the two children's upbringing, retrospectively) in first per......more

Goodreads review by Deepest on January 03, 2014

Made me ache. The entire text was littered with recurring relationships that should have abandoned by the protagonists long ago. One needs a past to form self-identity, and it takes a level of delusion to strip away its shame.......more