Ann Beattie

• Sep-1976
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This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed....

• Sep-1976
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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 ent...

• Apr-1980
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An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull everyone down....

• Sep-1983
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The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that pr...

• May-1985
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From an award-winning, national bestselling author comes a "ferociously funny” novel (The Los Angeles Times) about an advice columnist in Vermont whose life is about to be turned upside down. Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic count...

• Sep-1985
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• Jan-1990
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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 photograph...

• May-1991
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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,...

• May-1991
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A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary liv...

• Sep-1995
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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 contem...

• Sep-1996
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A collection of short stories highlights characters who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and includes tales about a woman's fascination with a bowl and a couple's coming-to-terms with the loss of their daughter. Reprint. 12,500 first printing....

• May-1997
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In her latest novel, the author of Another You combines intensely realistic description and an effortless command of mood to examine the treacherous difference between love and fascination--between what we know about other people and what we think we...

• Jun-1998
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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 fe...

• Jan-2001
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A collection of striking short stories filled with memorable characters from award-winning author Ann Beattie.Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own e...

• Feb-2002
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An impeccable ear for language, an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape, and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behavior -- Ann Beattie's renowned storytelling abilities are on dazzling display in The Doctor’s House.Th...

• May-2005
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From four time O. Henry Award�"winning author Ann Beattie, a compellingly tender, acute, and revelatory collection of stories.Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance enc...

• Jun-2010
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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 ...

• Nov-2010
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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 cel...

• Nov-2011
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Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer’s art. Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who ne...

• May-2015
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection For more than forty years, Ann Beattie’s short fiction has held a mirror up to America, in stories that are ambitious, twisted, and authentic. In “Vermont,” Beattie details the life of a r...

• Aug-2015
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A magnificent new collection of linked stories from a multiple prize-winning master of the short form. The State We’re In, Ann Beattie’s first collection of new stories in a decade, is about how we live in the places we have chosen -- or have bee...

• Jun-2017
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A magnificent new collection 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, Ann Beattie’s astutel...

• Apr-2019
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A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel--the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie--about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben jo...

• Jul-2023
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* “Supple, superb.” -- The Boston Globe * “A deft mash of lonesomeness and wit.” -- Chicago Tribune * “Her best in more than two decades.” -- The New York Times *Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a “sophistica...