Bibliographical Description
86.08.W022: Beattie – Love Always
Love Always | [ornamental rule 0.4 x 9.15 cm] | A Novel by | Ann Beattie | Vintage Contemporaries | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House | New York
First Vintage Books Edition, August 1986
128 leaves, pp. [6] 1–2 3-247 [3]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “Also by Ann Beattie”, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-247 Love Always, χ1b about the author, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Thomas Victor.
Copyright: ©1985. ISBN: 0-394-74418-7. Price: $5.95. Love Always was first published by Random House, 1985.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) Her most comic novel thus far…raises serious questions about the nature of love. – The New York Times Book Review
- A master chronicler of our life and times. – Newsday
- A very funny book….If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of late 20th century media-fringe America…the outcome might have been something like this. – Margaret Atwood, The Chicago Sun Times
- Ferociously funny. – The Los Angeles Times
- Beattie’s new novel, her third, is a gratifying surprise. Love Always will be welcomed by the large and loyal Beattie readership, but there is much that recommends it to the previously unconverted. – Harper’s Bazaar
- Beattie’s most comic—indeed her first satiric—work to date….Much of the book’s authenticity derives from the accretion of felt detail—a Beattie trademark. She captures 1984 Vermont with right-on references to Cyndi Lauper, Horchow catalogs, and ‘pre-Cabbage Patch’ Coleco. – The Christian Science Monitor
- This novel is sadder than satire, for it is about the emptiness not of these lives but of our lives. – John Updike, The New Yorker
- The essential literary voice of the generation that came of age in the 1960s. – Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times