| Secrets & Surprises Contributor(s): Beattie, Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679731938 ISBN-13: 9780679731931 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1991 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90055706 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.24" W x 8.01" (0.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |