Ann Beattie
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of stories from award-winning author Ann Beattie, featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections. Surprising and revealing, set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, Beattie's astutely observed collection explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging." --
2) Another you
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelyn's, sometimes challenging,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As deeply rewarding as her fiction, a selection of Ann Beattie's essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always penetrating collection of writing never before published in book form. Ann Beattie, a master storyteller, has been delighting readers since the publication of her short stories in the 1970s and her first...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 as "interchangeable with a Martian." But decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Drawing on a wealth of sources from Life magazine to accounts by Nicon's...
11) Picturing Will
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 -- lover; and Wayne, the father who left Will without warning and now sees his infrequent visits as a crimp in his bedhopping....
12) Walks with men
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, living together in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil reveals the rules for a life well lived. Neil's certainties, Jane discovers, mask his deceptions. Her true education begins.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
As deeply rewarding as her fiction, More to Say presents a selection of Ann Beattie's essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always penetrating collection of writing never before published in book form.
Ann Beattie, a master storyteller, has been delighting readers since the publication of her short stories
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
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 act of tenderness. A man who's been shifting from place to place, always finding the same kind of people--sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A housewife who leads an uncomplicated life in New England describes the way another woman breezed into town and took over her life. The new arrival, Dara Falcon, is an expert manipulator and a pathological liar, and housewife Jean Warner is the perfect prey. By the author of Another You.
17) Falling in place
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
High-school student John Joel and a group of sophisticated friends learn about love, friendship, and life as they grow up in the 70s.
18) What was mine
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Short stories present a collage of contemporary lives, in which a series of narrators' reflections lead to deeper understanding and introspection.
