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51 produkter
Picturing Will
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
141 kr
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Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There''s Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, …
Burning House
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
229 kr
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The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that promised them they''d stay young forever. And here, …
Falling in Place
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
192 kr
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An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull everyone down. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Secrets & Surprises
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2010
216 kr
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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 …
Love Always
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
195 kr
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A master chronicler of our life and times." — Newsday "A very funny book. . . . If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of late 20th-century media-fringe America . . . the outcome might …
What Was Mine
& Other Stories
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
162 kr
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A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Another You
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
252 kr
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To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is …
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
208 kr
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This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles'' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Distortions
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2011
194 kr
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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 …
Wonderful Stroke of Luck
A Novel
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2019
80 kr
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A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love As a member of the Honor Society at Bailey Academy, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, Ben falls under the …
Perfect Recall
New Stories
Av Ann Beattie
Häftad, 2002
271 kr
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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 …
Perfect Recall
A Story by Ann Beattie
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2001
206 kr
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A collection of striking short stories filled with memorable characters from award-winning author Ann Beattie. Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations, this collection of eleven stories …
Doctor's House
A Novel
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2002
199 kr
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An impeccable ear for language, an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape, and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behavior—Ann Beattie''s renowned storytelling abilities are on dazzling display in The Doctor’s House . The story opens on Nina, who should have better …
Follies
New Stories
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2005
146 kr
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From four time O. Henry Award–winning author Ann Beattie, a compellingly tender, acute, and revelatory collection of stories. Ann Beattie''s Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance encounters that irrevocably alter lives. Beattie is …
Lincoln Perry's Charlottesville
Inbunden, 2006
540 kr
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Lincoln Perry is justly celebrated for his murals and edgy narrative figure paintings, with their saturated palette and multifaceted architectural compositions - Poussin refracted through de Chirico. This beautiful new book showcases his images of Charlottesville, Virginia - many of them multipanel …
Vermont
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2015
17 kr
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection For more than forty years, Ann Beattie’s short fiction has held a mirror up to America, in stories that are ambitious, twisted, and authentic. In “Vermont,” Beattie details the life of a reconfigured family as they search for fulfillment by escaping …
Park City
New and Selected Stories
Av Ann Beattie
E-bok, 2015
224 kr
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Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career. Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and feeling. The wife of a couple who have lost a …
