Vermont by Ann Beattie

Author:Ann Beattie [Beattie, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

BOOKS BY

ANN BEATTIE

ANOTHER YOU

At once a satire, a poignant domestic drama, and an ingenious psychological mystery, Ann Beattie’s novel is an unerring portrait of several failing marriages. In a small New England college town, Marshall and Sonja Lockard are, respectively, contemplating adultery and committing it. Marshall’s colleague Jack McCallum is fleeing accusations of rape and an enraged—and possibly homicidal—spouse. And in a series of enigmatic letters, a man who signs his name “M.” reports on his wife’s mental breakdown even as he verbally seduces his offstage correspondent.

Fiction

THE BURNING HOUSE

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 promised them they’d stay young forever. And here, in shapely, penetrating stories, Beattie confirms why she is one of the most widely imitated—yet surely inimitable—literary stylists of her generation. In The Burning House, Beattie’s characters go from dealing drugs to taking care of a bereaved friend. They watch their marriages fail not with a bang but with a wisecrack. And afterward, they may find themselves trading confidences with their spouses’ new lovers.

Short Stories

CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER

Chilly Scenes of Winter is the story of love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the unemployed Phi Beta Kappa college graduate; and Charles’s mother, who spends much of her time in the bathtub feeling depressed. But, above all, it is an uncannily accurate look at the nostalgia suffered by people yearning for deeper feelings in a culture that turns feelings into clichés.

Fiction

DISTORTIONS

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.

Short Stories

FALLING IN PLACE

In this assured and unsettling novel, Ann Beattie traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family and the people around them: John Knapp, who loves Nina but is married to Louise; Nina, an expensively educated salesgirl who loves John but spends too much time with her old boyfriend, Spangle; and most vividly, John Joel, the Knapps’ obese ten-year-old son, whose violent reaction to the weightlessness of the grown-up world may make everyone tumble down.

Fiction

LOVE ALWAYS

“Beattie’s most comic—indeed her first satiric—work to date…. Much of the book’s authenticity derives from the accretion of felt detail—a Beattie trademark” (The Christian Science Monitor).

Fiction

MY LIFE, STARRING DARA FALCON

Dara Falcon is someone whom other people think they know. Glamorous, charismatic, theatrical, she deals in off-hand seductions and instant intimacies; she has no sooner arrived in a small New England town than she is playing footsie with one man, inveigling a diamond ring from another, and getting her new friend Jean to sell her a car for one dollar.

Fiction

PARK CITY

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This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of Ann Beattie’s career including eight pieces that have not appeared in a book before.

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