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The New Yorker Stories
The New Yorker Stories
by Ann Beattie
The perfect book for new fans and decade-long supporters alike, Ann Beattie: The New Yorker provides readers with a lifetime worth of short stories from one of the most original and celebrated voices of her generation. When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life
by Ann Beattie
Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer’s art. Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon’s wife:...
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Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Women's Fiction; Writing and Publishing
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck: A Novel
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck: A Novel
by Ann Beattie
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Vulture, The Millions, The Observer, and O, The Oprah MagazineA razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel--the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie--about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we loveAt a boarding school in New...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature
Secrets & Surprises (Vintage Contemporaries)
Secrets & Surprises (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories -- "A Vintage Thunderbird;" "The Lawn Party, " " La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans," to name a few -- seem even more powerful, and...
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Walks With Men: Fiction
Walks With Men: Fiction
by Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker’s young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times. So does the protagonist of her intense new novella, Walks with Men. It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Vintage Contemporaries)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.
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The Doctor's House: A Novel
The Doctor's House: A Novel
by Ann Beattie
An impeccable ear for language, an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape, and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behavior—Ann Beattie's renowned storytelling abilities are on dazzling display in The Doctor’s House.The story opens on Nina, who should have better things to do than to track her brother Andrew's...
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Perfect Recall: A Story by Ann Beattie
Perfect Recall: A Story by Ann Beattie
by Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie published her first short story in The New Yorker in 1972. Twenty-eight years later, she received the 2000 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is, as the Washington Post Book World said, "one of our era's most vital masters of the short form." The eleven stories in her new work are peopled by characters...
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Burning House (Vintage Contemporaries)
Burning House (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that promised them they'd stay young forever. And here, in shapely, penetrating stories, Beattie...
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Picturing Will (Vintage Contemporaries)
Picturing Will (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jody's perfect -- perhaps too perfect...
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Distortions (Vintage Contemporaries)
Distortions (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
Haunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.
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Love Always (Vintage Contemporaries)
Love Always (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
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...
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Follies: New Stories
Follies: New Stories
by Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie, winner of four O. Henry prizes, has been called "one of our era's most vital masters of the short form" (The Washington Post Book World). She is a masterful observer of...
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Falling in Place (Vintage Contemporaries)
Falling in Place (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull everyone down.
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Another You (Vintage Contemporaries)
Another You (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it.
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What Was Mine: & Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
What Was Mine: & Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.
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Park City: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
Park City: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Ann Beattie
Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and feeling. The wife of a couple who have lost a child comforts her husband with an amazing...
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The State We're In: Maine Stories
The State We're In: Maine Stories
by Ann Beattie
“Ann Beattie at her most magnificent…Her first new collection in ten years...These tales explore the range of emotional states the author is famous for: longing, disaffection, ambivalence, love, regret. It’s nice to hear her voice again” (People).“A peerless, contemplative page-turner” (Vanity Fair), The State We’re In is about how we...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction
The Accomplished Guest: Stories
The Accomplished Guest: Stories
by Ann Beattie
* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year A magnificent collection from award-winning author Ann Beattie—“profoundly intriguing and unsettling stories that abound in delectably witty and furious inner monologues, barbed dialogue, ludicrous predicaments, many faceted heartaches, and abrupt upswellings of affection, even...
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