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Park City: New and Selected Stories
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries
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ISBN10: 0679781331
ISBN13: 9780679781332
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 29 1999
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679781332
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 29 1999
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
For 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.
expansive, Park City is dazzling.
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