Secrets & Surprises by Ann Beattie

Secrets & Surprises by Ann Beattie

These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories -- A Vintage Thunderbird; The Lawn Party, La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, to name a few -- seem even more powerful, and are read and studied as classics of the short-story form. Spare and elegant, yet charged with feeling and with the tension of things their characters cannot say, they are masterly portraits of improvised lives.

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	9780679731931
ISBN 10	0679731938
Title	Secrets & Surprises
Author	Ann Beattie
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage
Year published	1991-05-07
Number of pages	320
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