For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have not appeared in a book before. Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools. They comfort each other amid the ...
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For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have not appeared in a book before. Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools. They comfort each other amid the ashes of failed relationships and in hospital waiting rooms. They try to locate themselves in a world where all the old landmarks have been turned into theme parks. Funny and sorrowful, fiercely compressed yet emotionally expansive, Park City is dazzling. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Chip Kidd dj. Fine in Fine jacket. Book Gold-stamped navy spine w/ dark blue bds. Unblemished dust jacket. No names, clean text. Giftworthy! 28, 000 PB shelf.
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New. New Slight shelf wear to dust jacket, Otherwise New--A lovely big book! Usually ships within 1-2 business days Quality Books Because We Care-Shipped from Canada.
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Fine with no dust jacket. 000224571X. SIGNED Presentation Issue. Fine in blue cloth, without dj. as issued, enclosed in a pictorial publisher's slipcase.
