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Secrets & Surprises

By Ann Beattie

By Ann Beattie

By Ann Beattie

By Ann Beattie

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

Paperback $16.00

May 07, 1991 | ISBN 9780679731931

Ebook $12.99

Sep 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307765734

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    About Secrets & Surprises

    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.

    About Secrets & Surprises

    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.

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    About Ann Beattie

    Ann Beattie has published twenty-one books and lives with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry, in Maine. She is a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story and a member of the American Academy of Arts and… More about Ann Beattie

    About Ann Beattie

    Ann Beattie has published twenty-one books and lives with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry, in Maine. She is a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story and a member of the American Academy of Arts and… More about Ann Beattie

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    May 07, 1991 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679731931

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 29, 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307765734

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    Praise

    "Powerful and plausible…Beattie is a remarkable talent."–Chicago Sun-Times

    "Ann Beattie’s stories are the most perceptive since Salinger’s. They are not just good writing, not just true to life; they have wonder in them and vision." — Mary Lee Settle

    "Superb."–Boston Globe

    "Talented and sensitive…works of vivid honesty and insight."– Washington Post



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