Perfect Recall - Hardcover

Beattie, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743211693 ISBN 13: 9780743211697

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

A moving and beautifully written collection of short stories from the award-winning author of FALLING IN PLACE (Vintage). Ann Beattie published her first short story in The New Yorker in 1972. Twenty-eight years later, she received the 2000 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is, as the Washington Post said, "one of our era's most vital masters of the short form." The eleven stories in her new work are peopled by characters coming to terms with the legacies of long-held family myths or confronting altered circumstances, new frailty or sudden, unlikely success. Beattie's ear for language, her complex and subtle wit, and her profound compassion are unparalleled. From the elegiac story "The Famous Poet, Amid Bougainvillea," in which two men trade ruminations on illness, art, and servitude, to "The Big-Breasted Pilgrim," wherein a famous chef gets a series of bewildering phone calls from George Stephanopoulos, PERFECT RECALL comprises Beattie's strongest work in years. It is a riveting commentary on the way we live now by a spectacular prose artist.

About this title

Review:

"San Francisco Examiner" Beattie manages to combine literary minimalism with a precise eye on the nuances and difficulties of human relationships.

About the Author:

Ann Beattie has published six previous collections of stories and six novels. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key West, Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743211693
• ISBN 13: 9780743211697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348