Love Always by Ann Beattie [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1986 • Vintage Contemporaries

Love Always by Ann Beattie

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1986] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

80's Vintage Contemporaries printing featuring their iconic signature mid-80's art-deco cover style.   

Vintage trade paperback in excellent condition.   

Like new!   Only trace shelf wear.

Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonely hearts of a chic counter-cultural magazine, finds her unflappable Vermont life completely upended by her teenaged soap-opera-star niece, Nicole, and her hangers-on.

Exploring themes of love, modern relationships, and the emptiness behind media facades, with critics calling it her funniest and most comic work. The book is a Bildungsroman and literary fiction, set in a fashionable, counter-cultural part of Vermont frequented by New Yorkers and Bostonians, and is known for its sharp, witty commentary on contemporary life. 

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