Ann Beattie

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...

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...

Author: Ann BeattieISBN-10: 0679732349ISBN-13: 9780679732341Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/1991Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.23w x 0.68dReview Citation(s): New York Review of Books 07/14/2011 pg. 36About the AuthorAnn Beattie has published eight novels and ten collections of stories, among them Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling...

Author: Ann BeattieISBN-10: 0679732357ISBN-13: 9780679732358Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/1991Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.50w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): New York Review of Books 07/14/2011 pg. 36About the AuthorBorn in 1947, Ann Beattie grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., attended college at American University,...

In this assured and unsettling novel, the author of Picturing Will traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family and the people around them. "Impressive. . . . Nothing Ann Beattie has written could prepare us for (this) novel. Beattie (is) a...

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 counter-cultural magazine, finds her unflappable Vermont...

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...

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...

"Shimmering prose and critical acumen on display in an eclectic collection."--Kirkus Reviews 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...

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 know. Dara Falcon is someone...

Award-winning and beloved short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a brilliant new collection of closely linked stories all set in Charlottesville, Virginia, a place Beattie knows intimately. Onlookers is an astute new story collection by award-winning author Ann Beattie, about people living in...

Award-winning and beloved short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a brilliant new collection of closely linked stories all set in Charlottesville, Virginia, a place Beattie knows intimately.Onlookers is an astute new story collection by award-winning author Ann Beattie, about people living in the...

* "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 "sophisticated, idiosyncratic, and witty" (Star Tribune,...

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 expectations, this collection of eleven stories from Ann Beattie...

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...

North Carolina native Ann Rothrock Beattie has produced an autobiographical account of her unique and endearing love story that began on a safari in Zimbabwe, Africa. Her safari love affair eventually lands her in rural Africa on a tobacco farm, where she deals with...

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year A magnificent collection from award-winning author Ann Beattie--"profoundly intriguing and unsettling stories that abound in delectably witty and furious inner monologues, barbed dialogue, ludicrous predicaments, many faceted heartaches, and abrupt upswellings of affection, even...

The perfect book for new fans and decade-long supporters alike, Ann Beattie: The New Yorker provides readers with a lifetime worth of short stories from one of the most original and celebrated voices of her generation. When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in...

"Ann Beattie at her most magnificent...Her first new collection in ten years...These tales explore the range of emotional states the author is famous for: longing, disaffection, ambivalence, love, regret. It's nice to hear her voice again" (People). "A peerless, contemplative page-turner" (Vanity Fair), The...

Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker's young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times. So does the protagonist of her intense new novella, Walks with Men. It is 1980...

These shimmering and emotionally complex stories give witness to the growing depth in the writing of one of today's most consistently acclaimed fiction writers. Beattie's latest collection is filled with tales that combine painterly detail with an uncanny feel for the submerged rhythms of...