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Park City: New and Selected Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679781332)
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xFor more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have not appeared in a book before.
Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools. They comfort each other amid the ashes of failed relationships and in hospital waiting rooms. They try to locate themselves in a world where all the old landmarks have been turned into theme parks. Funny and sorrowful, fiercely compressed yet emotionally
expansive, Park City is dazzling.
Author: Ann Beattie
ISBN-10: 0679781331
ISBN-13: 9780679781332
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/29/1999
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 1.17d
Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 38
New York Times 07/25/1999 pg. 24
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 105
New York Review of Books 07/14/2011 pg. 36
Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools. They comfort each other amid the ashes of failed relationships and in hospital waiting rooms. They try to locate themselves in a world where all the old landmarks have been turned into theme parks. Funny and sorrowful, fiercely compressed yet emotionally
expansive, Park City is dazzling.
Author: Ann Beattie
ISBN-10: 0679781331
ISBN-13: 9780679781332
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/29/1999
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 1.17d
Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 38
New York Times 07/25/1999 pg. 24
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 105
New York Review of Books 07/14/2011 pg. 36
By Ann Beattie
xBorn in 1947, Ann Beattie grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., attended college at American University, and went on to do graduate work in English literature at the University of Connecticut. She began writing stories out of frustration with her doctoral work. After rejecting twenty-two submissions, The New Yorker published Beattie's "A Platonic Relationship" in 1974, and Beattie became a regular contributor to the magazine. Her first collection of stories, Distortions, and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, appeared simultaneously in 1976 and initiated a long-standing critical debate as to whether Beattie's greater strength is in the story or the novel. All critics agree, however, on the uniqueness of her style and her uncanny ability to expose certain truths about contemporary life, particularly as it lived by those of her own generation and social class. She lives in Maine and Key West with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry.
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