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Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"--

Award-winning and beloved short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a brilliant new collection of closely linked stories all set in Charlottesville, Virginia, a place Beattie knows intimately.Onlookers is an astute new story collection by award-winning author Ann Beattie, about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways. Peaceful Charlottesville, Virginia, drew national attention when white nationalists ...

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A selection of Ann Beattie's nonfiction essays, chosen and introduced by the author. Ann Beattie's nonfiction (originally published in Esquire, The American Scholar, Life, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many others) has never before been gathered and published in book form. With subjects ranging from Alice Munro to Elmore Leonard, from Sally Mann to John Loengard, this is a wide-ranging, and always penetrating and surprising, colle...

This book celebrates the portraiture of Helsinki-based American photographer Curt Richter (born 1956), presenting his portraits of contemporary writers taken at Key West Literary Festival--among them Kay Ryan, William Gibson, Geoff Dyer, Calvin Trillin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Cunningham, Ann Beattie and Gore Vidal.

A Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year"Every sentence shines with wit, originality, and sharp observations."--The Boston GlobeA razor-sharp, deeply felt novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we loveAt a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an enigmatic, brilliant, yet perverse, teacher who instructs his stu...

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Vulture, The Millions, The Observer, and O, The Oprah MagazineA razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel--the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie--about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we loveAt a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an enigmatic, brilliant, yet perverse, teacher who ...

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year A magnificent collection from award-winning author Ann Beattie—"profoundly intriguing and unsettling stories that abound in delectably witty and furious inner monologues, barbed dialogue, ludicrous predicaments, many faceted heartaches, and abrupt upswellings of affection, even love...always on point, funny, and poignant" (Booklist, starred review).Ann Beattie's "seamless combination of biti...

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Ann Beattie unfolds a riveting, fictional exploration of an elusive American icon.

Ann Beattie unfolds a riveting, fictional exploration of an elusive American icon.

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Now in paperback from the award-winning author the New York Times Book Review called "a national treasure, ” a fascinating, wholly original book about Pat Nixon that is also "a fully realized account of fiction, fiction writing, and the fiction writer” (The Boston Globe).The rare First Lady who did not write a book, Pat Nixon remains one of the most mysterious and enigmatic public figures in recent history. Ann Beattie, like many of her genera...

Ann Beattie at her most magnificent...Her first new collection in ten years...These tales explore the range of emotional states the author is famous for: longing, disaffection, ambivalence, love, regret. It's nice to hear her voice again” (People)."A peerless, contemplative page-turner” (Vanity Fair), The State We're In is about how we live in the places we have chosen—or been chosen by. It's about the stories we tell our families, our friends...

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From the author of "Park City" comes a superb novella and a collection of brilliant stories about adult children, aging parents and the chance encounters that alter lives.

Haunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.