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Book Overview
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 are read and studied as classics of the short-story form. Spare and elegant, yet charged with feeling and with the tension of things their characters cannot say, they are masterly portraits of improvised lives.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679731938
ISBN13:9780679731931
Release Date:May 1991
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Excellent Short Stories
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is an excellent book of short stories by Anne Beattie. My favorites are: -Distant Music -A Reasonable Man -Shifting -La Petite Danseuse -Weekend -The Lawn Party The best one in the collection is 'Friends'. If you like short stories, I highly recommend this book.
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