Promenades Avec Les Hommes
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Promenades Avec Les Hommes by Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker's young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times. So does the protagonist of her intense new novella, Walks with Men. It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, living together in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil reveals the rules for a life well lived: If you take food home from a restaurant, don't say it's because you want leftovers for the dog. Say that you want the bones for a friend who does autopsies. If you can't stand on your head (which is best), learn to do cartwheels. Have sex in airplane bathrooms. Wear only raincoats made in England. Neil's certainties, Jane discovers, mask his deceptions. Her true education begins. One of our era's most vital masters of the short form (The Washington Post), Beattie brilliantly captures a time, a place and a style of engagement. Her voice is original and iconic.Ann Beattie's work has appeared in four O. The Best American Short Tales of the Century, edited by John Updike, and Jennifer Egan's The Best American Short Stories 2014. She won the PEN/Malamud Prize for achievement in the short story in 2000. She won the Rea Prize for Short Fiction in 2005. She was the University of Virginia's Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing.
She belongs to the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her husband, Lincoln Perry, and she split their time between Maine and Key West, Florida.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782757834619 |
| ISBN 10 | 2757834614 |
| Title | Promenades Avec Les Hommes |
| Author | Ann Beattie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Contemporary French Fiction |
| Year published | 2013-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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