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Scribner, October 2011
Trade Paperback, 544 pages
ISBN-10: 143916875X
ISBN-13: 9781439168752
Description
When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name became an adjective: Beattiesque. Subtle, wry, and unnerving, she is a master observer of the unraveling of the American family, and also of the myriad small occurrences and affinities that unite us. Her characters, over nearly four decades, have moved from lives of fickle desire to the burdens and inhibitions of adulthood and on to failed aspirations, sloppy divorces, and sometimes enlightenment, even grace.
Each Beattie story, says Margaret Atwood, is "like a fresh bulletin from the front: we snatch it up, eager to know what’s happening out there on the edge of that shifting and dubious no-man’s-land known as interpersonal relations." With an unparalleled gift for dialogue and laser wit, she delivers flash reports on the cultural landscape of her time. Ann Beattie: The New Yorker Stories is the perfect initiation for readers new to this iconic American writer and a glorious return for those who have known and loved her work for decades.
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“Beattie captures the milieu perfectly… An in-depth study of a subculture and a staggering almanac of emotions.”
-- Entertainment Weekly
“The collection is not so much a museum of past work as a dynamic, entertaining, 32-year exploration of the form-a reminder that, in the hands of a career virtuoso, the short story is very much alive.”
-- Nathan Heller, Slate
Huffington Post, November 22, 2010
..."The New Yorker Stories" By Ann Beattie And on Beattie goes, publishing one wry story after another in the welcoming pages of The New Yorker (three stories in 1974, five in 1975 ...
Huffington Post, November 22, 2010
..."The New Yorker Stories" By Ann Beattie The New York Times More ...
Here & Now, November 16, 2010
...In the 1970s, Author Ann Beattie was called the most popular and admired writer of her generation by the New York Times. Her work appeared regularly in the New Yorker, and her first novel “Chilly ...
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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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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