Perfect Recall: New Stories

by Ann Beattie

2020-12-29 17:56:19

Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations, this collection of eleven new stories from Ann Beattie makes it strikingly clear why she is known... Read more
Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations, this collection of eleven new stories from Ann Beattie makes it strikingly clear why she is known as one of "American literature''s most adept explorers and interpreters of the unraveling edges of life" (Miami Herald).
From the elegiac story "The Famous Poet, Amid Bougainvillea," in which two men trade ruminations about the odd experience of being cared for by those you are meant to serve, to "The Big-Breasted Pilgrim," wherein a famous chef gets a series of bewildering phone calls from George Stephanopoulos, expressing Clinton''s desire to dine at his house, to two stories in which family myths turn out to be both inaccurate and prescient, Perfect Recall comprises Beattie''s most ambitious and complex work yet. Less

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File size8 X 12.75 X 0.9 in
Print pages352
PublisherScribner
Publication date February 1, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780743211703
Author
Ann Beattie (born Sep 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories published in The Western Humanities Review, Ninth Letter, The ...

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