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Ann Beattie
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 ... [... more]
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Corpus Christi: Stories
Superior craftsmanship!: Years ago I stopped buying short story collections as I found it to be like buying a CD by a favorite band: There would be the one, popular, Top 10 cut, then the rest of the music would be filler. I was encouraged by a writer- [... more]
CDN$21.00
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New Yorker Magazine
Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, John Updike, Gabriel García Márquez, Mavis Gallant, Julian Barnes, Michael Chabon, Jamaica Kincaid, John O'Hara, Muriel Spark, Ann Beattie, and William Maxwell are among the contributors to Nothing But You: Love [... more]
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Secrets & Surprises
Excellent -- as usual: Why doesn't anyone read these books? Every time I'm on Amazon I look up intelligent, literate books and NO ONE has written about them. Can't people read books other than those that win the literary prizes. Anyhow...this is an [... more]
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Art Of The Story
From Amazon.com: A reader doesn't want to love every story in an anthology. A collection of short fiction by various authors should be just that: various. We want all the stories to be admirable, but not necessarily lovable. This is how anthologies do [... more]
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Follies: New Stories
Author: Ann Beattie Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780743269629 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0743269624 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2006-06-20 [... more]
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Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories
From Amazon.com: "Months afterwards she would remember that morning with dismay, when she had sat with them for the first time, as though they were at home there: drinking from cups like welcome guests ... and only the part of her, the part that [... more]
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Desperate Characters A Novel
From Amazon.com: Meet the Bentwoods, Sophie and Otto, "both just over forty," living in Brooklyn sometime in the '60s with neither hope nor children to encourage them to work on their suffocating marriage. Such are the central subjects of Paula [... more]
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Vanishing Point
Markson is a Master: I picked up this book a bit apprehensively, being aware of Markson's experimental style of narration. How could this possibly be termed a "novel" if it is merely a collection of facts from literature, history, music, [... more]
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Letters To A Fiction Writer
From Amazon.com: "As a writer," says Andre Dubus, "you are constantly in training. Day after day, alone at your desk, with no one watching you or even depending on you, you take your position on the playing field." Letters to a [... more]
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Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories
From Amazon.com: "Months afterwards she would remember that morning with dismay, when she had sat with them for the first time, as though they were at home there: drinking from cups like welcome guests ... and only the part of her, the part that [... more]
CDN$36.07
Amazon CA |
Letters To A Fiction Writer
From Amazon.com: "As a writer," says Andre Dubus, "you are constantly in training. Day after day, alone at your desk, with no one watching you or even depending on you, you take your position on the playing field." Letters to a [... more]
CDN$19.99
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