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My life, starring Dara Falcon

Dara Falcon is brilliant, manipulative, a pathological liar. The novel's narrator, Jean Warner, is perfect prey for her. Suddenly Jean's life, her marriage—her idea of herself—are dramatically wrenched out of their seemingly comfortable, if unexamined, balance. And in the process, one of Ann Beattie's urgent themes—the sometimes subtle and sometimes startling difference between how things look and how things are—is compellingly explored. (Publisher's comments)

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 307 pages

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