Secrets & Surprises: 0000 (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Beattie, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679731938 ISBN 13: 9780679731931

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991

Synopsis

A masterful collection of stories that creates a remarkable portrait of improvised lives.

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Review:

"Powerful and plausible...Beattie is a remarkable talent."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Ann Beattie's stories are the most perceptive since Salinger's. They are not just good writing, not just true to life; they have wonder in them and vision." -- Mary Lee Settle

"Superb."--Boston Globe

"Talented and sensitive...works of vivid honesty and insight."-- Washington Post

Also by Ann Beattie, available in Vintage Contemporaries: Chilly Scenes of Winter, Distortions, Falling in Place, Love Always, Picturing Will

About the Author:

Born in 1947, Ann Beattie grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., attended college at American University, and went on to do graduate work in English literature at the University of Connecticut. She began writing stories out of frustration with her doctoral work. After rejecting twenty-two submissions, The New Yorker published Beattie's "A Platonic Relationship" in 1974, and Beattie became a regular contributor to the magazine. Her first collection of stories, Distortions, and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, appeared simultaneously in 1976 and initiated a long-standing critical debate as to whether Beattie's greater strength is in the story or the novel. All critics agree, however, on the uniqueness of her style and her uncanny ability to expose certain truths about contemporary life, particularly as it lived by those of her own generation and social class. She lives in Maine and Key West with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679731938
• ISBN 13: 9780679731931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320