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The accomplished guest : stories
- Title
- The accomplished guest : stories / Ann Beattie.
- Author
- Beattie, Ann
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-4736 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Beattie, Ann.
- Description
- xi, 270 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- A dazzling new collection from award-winning author Ann Beattie - featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections. Ann Beattie's first book, Distortions, was published more than forty years ago, but her writing is as fresh, funny, and relevant as ever. He astutely observed new collection explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, aging, and mortality. In The Accomplished Guest, people pay visits or receive visitors, travel to see old friends, and experience the joys and tolls of hosting company (and of being hosted). The occasion might be a wedding, a birthday, a reunion, an annual Christmas party, or another opportunity to gather and attempt to bond with relatives or chosen families. In some stories, as in life, what begins as a benign social event becomes a situation played for high stakes. Set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, the stories in The Accomplished Guest are marked by an undercurrent of loss and an unexpected element of violence, with Beattie's signature ironic humor woven throughout. Some guests provide welcome diversions, others are uninvited interruptions, all are indelibly drawn by the endlessly amusing and brilliant Ann Beattie. --
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Contents
- The Indian uprising -- For the best -- The astonished woodchopper -- Anecdotes -- Other people's birthdays -- Company -- The debt -- Lady Neptune -- The caterer -- The gypsy chooses the whatever card -- The cloud -- Hoodie in Xanadu -- Save a horse ride a cowgirl.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-4736
- ISBN
- 9781501111389
- 1501111388
- LCCN
- 2017288928
- OCLC
- 961009506
- Author
- Beattie, Ann, author.
- Title
- The accomplished guest : stories / Ann Beattie.
- Publisher
- New York : Scribner, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Beattie, Ann. Indian uprising.Beattie, Ann. For the best.Beattie, Ann. Astonished woodchopper.Beattie, Ann. Anecdotes.Beattie, Ann. Other people's birthdays.Beattie, Ann. Company.Beattie, Ann. Debt.Beattie, Ann. Lady Neptune.Beattie, Ann. Caterer.Beattie, Ann. Gypsy chooses the whatever card.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-4736