Perfect Recall: New Stories - Couverture rigide

Beattie, Ann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743211693 ISBN 13 : 9780743211697

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

gray boards, green cloth, gilt lettering, mylar-wrapped dust jacket, 347 pp, first edition

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

The Washington Post Book World One of our era's most vital masters of the short form.

Jennifer Schuessler The New York Times Book Review So vivid and beguiling is Beattie's writing that it isn't until you look again that you realize how rarely she reaches for metaphors or other figures of speech, and how little she needs to...More often than anyone has a right to, Ann Beattie nails it.

Conan Putnam San Francisco Chronicle ...Beattie has become an expert at probing the essential mysteries of human character.

Mark Levine Men's Journal The stories are always brilliantly real and slightly askew...Add to her total recall the gift of perfect pitch and what you get is indelible writing.

Diane Roberts The Atlanta Journal-Constitution This collection is sleek, urbane, eminently readable...Beattie beats Updike any day for elegance of style and profundity of wit. Intelligence combines with sympathy to create a first-rate collection.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743211693
• ISBN 13: 9780743211697
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 348