Ann Beattie
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From a multiple prize–winning master of the short form: a stunning collection of brand-new, linked stories that perfectly capture the zeitgeist through the voices of vivid and engaging women from adolescence to old age. "We build worlds for ourselves wherever we go, " writes Ann Beattie. The State We're In, her magnificent new collection of linked stories, is about how we live in the places we have chosen-or been chosen by. It's about the stories...
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The reader travels with Ms. Beattie to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to learn about the legacy of the painter, Grant Wood, and his iconic painting American Gothic; to the famed University of Virginia campus with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry; to Key West, Florida for New Years with writer and translator, Harry Mathews; to a roadside near Boston in a broken-down car with the wheelchair-bound writer Andre Dubus. There are explorations of novels, short...
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[2019]
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A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love As a member of the Honor Society at Bailey Academy, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, Ben falls under the tutelage of Pierre LaVerdere, a brilliant, enigmatic teacher who instructs his charges on how to discuss current events, how to think about art and literature,...
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En 1980, en Nueva York, Jane, una recién licenciada de Harvard, conoce a Neil, un problemático escritor veinte años mayor que ella. Los dos se convierten rápidamente en amantes y se mudan a un brownstone en el barrio neoyorquino de Chelsea. Neil le revela a la joven las reglas indispensables para vivir la vida: «Si te llevas las sobras de comida de un restaurante, no le comentes al camarero que se las darás al perro, dile que quieres los huesos...
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A complex look at adulthood through the eyes of one remarkable child.
Five-year-old Will is the precocious child of Jody and Wayne. Jody is a woman who dreams of becoming a celebrity and is having an affair with a man named Mel, while Wayne is no stranger to infidelity, either. The details of their intertwined lives form an intricate and often disturbing picture of modern day life- a life in which Will is unable to achieve a sense of...
7) Mrs. Nixon
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Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Drawing on a wealth of sources Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's point of view.
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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 love...always on point, funny, and poignant.
Ann Beattie's "seamless combination of biting wit and mordant humor, precise irony, and consummate cool" is on full display in...