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Scribner, April 2005
Hardcover, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0743269616
ISBN-13: 9780743269612
Description
A four-time O. Henry Prize winner, Ann Beattie is a masterful observer of domestic relations and the idiosyncratic logic that governs human lives. In Follies, her most resonant collection, she looks at baby boomers in their maturity, sorting out their own lives and struggling with parents who are eccentric, unpredictable, and increasingly dependent. She is at the top of her form, writing with the vividness, compassion, and sometimes morbid wit that have made her one of the most influential writers of a generation.
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Browse Inside Follies"Beattie is a shrewd observer of human nature and one of the best short story writers alive." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Ann Beattie is one of our era's most vital masters of the short form." -- The Washington Post Book World
-- The Washington Post Book World
"Beattie has a keen eye for love's fault lines, for our missed signals and hidden motives." -- More
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"Beattie's style works brilliantly -- as, seeming only to report the events of an evening, she reveals the essence of her tale." -- The Atlantic Monthly
-- The Atlantic Monthly
"The stories of Follies shine with the insights of time." -- Los Angeles Times
-- Los Angeles Times
Ann Beattie's Books
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Mrs. NixonFrom an award-winning writer, Ann Beattie, a wholly original non-fiction work about Pat Nixon, and about how writers create characters.Read More
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The New Yorker StoriesFrom a master of the short form, a collection of all the stories Ann Beattie has published in The New Yorker.Read More
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Walks With MenA knockout new novella that perfectly captures a time and a place--New York in the '80s--from iconic American writer Ann Beattie.Read More
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The Doctor's HouseAn impeccable ear for language, an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape, and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behavior...Read More -
Perfect RecallPeopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own...Read More
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