ANN BEATTIE'S `MY LIFE' FALLS FLAT.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | May 11, 1997 | Copyright

Byline: GAIL CALDWELL

Beyond all the au courant icons and cultural malaise, Ann Beattie's fiction has the memorable asset of capturing a certain quality of light -- a realm of emotion so private and unspoken that it seems as natural as air. It's a particular kind of truth, belonging to a generation that came of age in the '60s and '70s and that therefore has little sense of a world without irony or betrayal. Beattie's self-appointed task has been to populate this world not with unequivocal despair but with the memorabilia of hope -- an old purple sweater, say, or a ...

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