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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"Magnificant, a pleasure, a significant literary debut." --The New York Times
"Life as it is lived...One doesn't know whether to cheer or weep, but one goes on reading." --Detroit Free Press
"[Beattie is] a writer's writer." --Boston Evening Globe
"Ann Beattie is both painful and funny. She is a writer for all audiences, combining a remarkable array of skills with mateial of wide popular appeal. Her characters inhabit our contemporary world and brood like us about their loves, families, and lives. They compose a wide-screen panorama of life in these United States." --The New York Times Book Review
"Life as it is lived...One doesn't know whether to cheer or weep, but one goes on reading." --Detroit Free Press
"[Beattie is] a writer's writer." --Boston Evening Globe
"Ann Beattie is both painful and funny. She is a writer for all audiences, combining a remarkable array of skills with mateial of wide popular appeal. Her characters inhabit our contemporary world and brood like us about their loves, families, and lives. They compose a wide-screen panorama of life in these United States." --The New York Times Book Review
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Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike's Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Key West, Florida, and Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
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awesome grab bag of hilarious stories.,
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This review is from: Distortions (Paperback)
I first read this book about twelve years ago and I still go back to it regularly because it makes me laugh, although some of the stories are serious as well. My favorite stories are "Vermont" and "Weekend." If you want to know what the '70s were really like, then here's where you should start.
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